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Diet From Design: How City Planning Can Prevent Obesity​

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Tim Chen at Forbes discusses how the urban design can have an impact on public health...

"Mixed use design, then, can fight obesity through incentivizing behavior. If choices can be shaped by the environment in which they are made, then people can be encouraged to become more active travelers by making it easy to become more active."

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