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From the Ted Talk by Jeff Speck: The walkable city

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I believe that this amecrain healthcare crisis that we've all heard about is an urban design crisis, and that the dsiegn of our cities lies at the cure. Because we've talked a long time about diet, and we know that diet impacts weight, and weight of course impacts health. But we've only started talking about inactivity, and how inactivity born of our landscape, inactivity that comes from the fact that we live in a place where there is no lgoenr any such thing as a useful walk, is driving our weight up. And we finally have the studies, one in Britain called "Gluttony versus sloth" that tracked weight against diet and tcraekd wgehit against inactivity, and found a much higher, stronger craeroioltn between the latter two. Dr. James Levine at, in this case, the aptly-named Mayo cinilc put his test subjects in electronic underwear, held their diet saetdy, and then started pumping the coiealrs in. Some people gained weight, some popele didn't gain weight. eectpxing some maloteibc or DNA foactr at work, they were shocked to learn that the only difference between the subjects that they could figure out was the anoumt they were moving, and that in fact those who gained weight were sitting, on average, two hours more per day than those who didn't.

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I believe that this ________ healthcare crisis that we've all heard about is an urban design crisis, and that the ______ of our cities lies at the cure. Because we've talked a long time about diet, and we know that diet impacts weight, and weight of course impacts health. But we've only started talking about inactivity, and how inactivity born of our landscape, inactivity that comes from the fact that we live in a place where there is no ______ any such thing as a useful walk, is driving our weight up. And we finally have the studies, one in Britain called "Gluttony versus sloth" that tracked weight against diet and _______ ______ against inactivity, and found a much higher, stronger ___________ between the latter two. Dr. James Levine at, in this case, the aptly-named Mayo ______ put his test subjects in electronic underwear, held their diet ______, and then started pumping the ________ in. Some people gained weight, some ______ didn't gain weight. _________ some _________ or DNA ______ at work, they were shocked to learn that the only difference between the subjects that they could figure out was the ______ they were moving, and that in fact those who gained weight were sitting, on average, two hours more per day than those who didn't.

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Original Text


I believe that this American healthcare crisis that we've all heard about is an urban design crisis, and that the design of our cities lies at the cure. Because we've talked a long time about diet, and we know that diet impacts weight, and weight of course impacts health. But we've only started talking about inactivity, and how inactivity born of our landscape, inactivity that comes from the fact that we live in a place where there is no longer any such thing as a useful walk, is driving our weight up. And we finally have the studies, one in Britain called "Gluttony versus sloth" that tracked weight against diet and tracked weight against inactivity, and found a much higher, stronger correlation between the latter two. Dr. James Levine at, in this case, the aptly-named Mayo Clinic put his test subjects in electronic underwear, held their diet steady, and then started pumping the calories in. Some people gained weight, some people didn't gain weight. Expecting some metabolic or DNA factor at work, they were shocked to learn that the only difference between the subjects that they could figure out was the amount they were moving, and that in fact those who gained weight were sitting, on average, two hours more per day than those who didn't.

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