Moving to a depressed neighborhood linked to weight gain

8 mayo 2015

Certain regions in the United States are characterized by a higher prevalence of obesity, which suggests that a person’s socioeconomic, physical, and social environments can affect opportunities for healthy behaviors that might prevent excess weight gain. But what happens when people move from one neighborhood to another? A new study has found that people who moved to more socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods gained additional weight.
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