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Topic: Childhood Obesity News - MACALUSO: Urban sprawl and childhood obesity - Rochester City Newspaper

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Jackson, the department chair of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA, was in Rochester last week to kick off the fourth annual Rochester Regional Community Design Center’s “Reshaping Rochester” lecture series. As the country became more auto-centric, says Jackson, it not only pushed development farther and farther away from urban centers and increased our dependency on fossil fuels - it has, over the last 50 years, contributed greatly to the steady increase in heart, respiratory, and diabetes illnesses in the US. And the dramatic reduction of physical exercise as basic as walking has coincided with a sharp increase in childhood obesity, early onset of diabetes, and mental health problems. Among the standard treatments for the number-one malady among adults in the US - depression - is more exercise and physical activity. If you have a City Account you can not only post comments, but you can also respond to articles in your own City Blog. Read Childhood Obesity

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