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A cover story in this month’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports wide disparities in obesity rates between King County ZIP codes. Evidence from a University of Washington study asserts that the strongest predictor of obesity rates around the region is property values, not income or education. Perhaps not surprisingly, residents living in low-income neighborhoods with a dearth of sidewalks, parks and healthy food retail options suffer higher incidences of overweight and obesity. The article underscores that health isn’t just informed personal behavior, but by the environments in which we live.



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