I’m not the best poster child for the calorie burning benefits of giving up car ownership since I tend to use my more active lifestyle as justification for eating more ice cream. But in my real job working in public health, a lot of my projects concern the relationship between active transportation choices and obesity prevention. I’ve recently run into a couple of items illustrating the connections between transit and health:
An excellent graphic (sadly non-embeddable) illustrating the typical transit mix in states matched against obesity rates in those states.
A Freakonomics post referencing some of that same data, and connecting it to a recent study from North Carolina showing lower obesity rates among streetcar users (blogged about previously).
A new study from the American Public Transportation Association (PDF) exploring the links between transit and longer, healthier lifespans. (Via the always excellent Bobulate.)
