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Gladaed@feddit.org 2 months ago
How did CO do that? Free lunch in school? This does not seem to be something you can do by having more virtuous people.
Roopappy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Get out and go for a hike. That will help immensely.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Culture of healthy thinking
inv3r510n@lemmy.world 2 months ago
High elevation makes the body work harder because there’s less oxygen. Elite athletes train in the high country for the effects.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Only for a short period of time. You adapt and the effects go away since your body creates more red blood cells.
inv3r510n@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But then those athletes go down to sea level for a competition and have an advantage
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
For a few days
spongebue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yup. Go to high elevations, and until you acclimate you’ll feel a little off. Go to low elevations, and for the equal but opposite reasons you can run a marathon and outdrink anyone.
booly@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Altitude is an appetite suppressant.
The trend of altitude being inversely correlated with obesity rates is really obvious from county-level data. That trend persists across multiple countries, but the specific correlation varies from country to country, in a way that suggests that rich countries have a stronger inverse correlation between altitude and obesity.
inv3r510n@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Today I learned….
Haha. What’s interesting is there’s other high country in the US but it’s not green in this map.
booly@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s why the county level data makes the trend that much more obvious, because the states tend to clump big groups together. Here’s an example.
There, you can see that Colorado is special in that its rural counties tend to be low obesity, compared to even its neighbors in the Rockies. You also see a sliver of green following the Appalachian Mountains.
And obviously it isn’t the only factor. Poverty is really important, as are lifestyles (and the intentional and unintentional features of any given community in incentivizing or disincentivizing things like walking, regular exercise, eating healthy, etc.).
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Are you sure it is not the other way around? Maybe the driven people who are physically fit are moving to higher elevation. If someone is obese they probably aren’t going to move to rual mountains
meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Colorado has a good set of policies that support consistent and long term public funding of outdoor recreation, such as trails and parks. The level of connectivity among local and regional trail systems is very good and always improving.
greenhorn@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’m wondering what bias there may be for people from a place versus moving to a place. Many have noted the culture of activity in Colorado, and that may be pulling non-obese people from other states to Colorado. Not that it would sway the numbers that much, but as an anecdote, everyone I know in Colorado moved there from a different state and fit, and moved there for activities.
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Coloradans typically live a very active lifestyle. Outdoor recreation is a huge part of people’s lives. Therefore they’re moving a lot more and typically thinner
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 months ago
Ok, but what makes them this way. All of their neighbors have above average obesity.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The outside be nice and shit.
Also decent accessibility and cycling (compared to the deep red states)
Mojave@lemmy.world 2 months ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Eating like a normal person doesn’t mean eating disorders. I just don’t eat a lot of sugar and I make fresh food.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Plus sugar and salt make exercise unpleasant