Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Public Health

Pediatric Org’s Bicycle Recommendations Explained, in Terrifying Detail

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 15, 2013 | No Comments

There’s nothing quite like listening to a preeminent expert in pediatric injury prevention telling you you’re taking unnecessary risks with your child’s life. That more or less sums up my conversation yesterday with Dr. Phyllis Agran, who has authored and consulted on many American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policies relating to childhood injury and trauma […]

Study: Kids Who Live in Walkable Neighborhoods Get More Exercise

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 11, 2013 | No Comments

A study published this month in the American Journal of Preventive Health finds that children who live in walkable places — “smart growth neighborhoods,” to use the authors’ phrase — get significantly more exercise than their peers who live in suburban environments designed for driving. Researchers from UC Berkeley monitored the activity of 59 children […]

What Should the Surgeon General Say to Get More People Walking?

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 2, 2013 | No Comments

What if cars came with a Surgeon General’s warning like the ones that come on cigarette packs: “Sitting in this seat could lead to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression, and divorce.” Surgeon General Regina Benjamin is getting ready to go halfway there. She announced in December that she’d be issuing a call to action on […]

Study: Car Commuters Put on More Weight Than Active Commuters

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 20, 2013 | No Comments

Going to the gym may not be enough to keep off the pounds if you drive to work. That’s the result of a study published recently in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. According to an Australian research team, active commuting is an effective defense against gaining weight. Among a sample of 822 Australian adults […]

Designing Communities for Longevity: The Blue Zones Project

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 8, 2013 | No Comments

Is your neighborhood designed to make people healthy or sick? With the right characteristics, the place where you live could add years to your life. In 2004, Dan Buettner, CEO of the Blue Zones Project, partnered with researchers from National Geographic to study the places around the world that enjoy the greatest longevity. They found that […]

Surgeon General Announces Call to Action on Walking

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 5, 2012 | No Comments

Walking can seem like a rather mundane thing to get organized about, until you realize that it’s a direct challenge to car-oriented transportation and it’s the best thing people can do for their health. Then walking is downright revolutionary. Not only that, but it can be joyful. That was the message that the U.S. Surgeon General, […]

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