Counties that invest in mass transit may find their obesity rates drop, according to a study released this week in the journal Preventive Medicine.
The study’s findings also suggest that getting more people to use mass transit is as effective at lowering obesity rates as getting them to engage in leisure-time physical activity.
"As local communities seek to allocate public funds to projects that will provide the most benefit to their residents, our research suggests that investing in convenient and affordable public transit systems may improve public health by reducing obesity, thereby providing more value than had been previously thought," said Sheldon H. Jacobson, the study’s senior author and a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois, in a released statement.
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