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Urban Poor Plagued By ‘Burdens of Place’

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Most of America’s urban cores were designed for walking but offer little in the way of supermarkets, healthy restaurants and other amenities for residents to walk to, according to a study led by a Michigan State University scholar.

The study is one of the first to show that poor residents living in declining urban neighborhoods want healthy food choices – evidenced by their willingness to travel long distances to find them. Past research has generally assumed that poor people will shop at whatever store is closest. (more…)

Study Shows Link Between Prepregnancy Obesity and Lower Child Test Scores

By Guest PostMay 17, 2012Healthbmi, body mass index, cell growth, child test, childhood cognition, cognitive function, cognitive skill, cycle, dataset, fetal brain, link, muriel fang, obese, ohio state university, pamela salsberry, patricia reagan, post birth conditions, pregnancy, prepregnancy obesity, rika tanda, risk factor, ruth l kirschstein, sex, socioeconomic data, synapses, two point reduction

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Women who are obese before they become pregnant are at higher risk of having children with lower cognitive function – as measured by math and reading tests taken between ages 5 to 7 years – than are mothers with a healthy prepregnancy weight, new research suggests.

In this large observational study, prepregnancy obesity was associated, on average, with a three-point drop in reading scores and a two-point reduction in math scores on a commonly used test of children’s cognitive function. (more…)

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Urban Poor Plagued By ‘Burdens of Place’

Study Shows Link Between Prepregnancy Obesity and Lower Child Test Scores