Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why

• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are you saying that suburban families with kids no longer live next to schools, parks, friends?

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Correct. I live in suburbia. I can’t ride a bike to anything useful without going on a multi lane highway.

    I don’t even trust myself to do that ride without dying. People think cars own the roads.

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  • DireTech@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Obviously friends their age would depend on neighborhood demographics.

    However, in the US many of them are not able to bike to a playground or school and anything beyond their street could be a high speed road. I’d say only a small percentage can bike to the places you mentioned, especially after elementary age. Some areas of the US are good, but I doubt more than a tiny fraction of the kids in places like Texas could do that.

    We specifically moved because our old neighborhood lacked all 3 and I didn’t want my kids growing up the way I did.

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    • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      However, in the US many of them are not able to bike to a playground or school

      I find it infuriating that in some places there you can’t let your kid walk to school alone.

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      • JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s the result of decades of USAmerican propaganda, we’re left with a very fractured community system full of in groups and out groups and people terrified of or fighting with their neighbors and delivery services where people have literally paid someone to come to their door are high risk jobs.

        Ironically, in the neighborhoods I’ve lived in, it was the lower income ones where kids roamed more freely because some parents had no other options than trusting their kid to walk alone. But their presence also created more safety from herd protection.

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    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Agreed. I’m just saying that I’ve seen behavior burby places change, even when the demographics, parks, and schools reminded similar.

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