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# Calling Wendell Berry
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1397/
- Published: 2005-06-17T13:21:36.000Z
- Updated: 2005-06-17T13:21:36.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Culture, #wpChunk

An article in the June 20th issue of *U.S. News & World Report* speculates that suburbia might be bad for our health. A few excerpts (no link available):

> Since 1960, the number of people commuting to work out of the county they live in jumped by 200 percent. Residential "sprawl" has meant a 250 percent increase in vehicle miles traveled. The average driver spends 443 hours yearly behind the wheel, the equivalent of 11 work weeks.

> "For every additional hour people spend in the car, there's a 6 percent increase in the likelihood of being obese." \[We assume this means "every additional hour *per week*"\]

> Increased auto traffic is also a key source of ground-level ozone. Asthma rates among children, who are believed to be particularly sensitive to ozone, more than doubled between 1980 and 1995.

> Living in suburbs is linked to eating more higher-calorie food. At least 1 in 4 adults now eats fast food on any given day. For children, 1 of every 3 meals is fast food.

> Childhood obesity has more than doubled in three decades. But the number of kids who walk or bike to school has dropped from nearly half in 1960 to about 1 in 10 today, largely because schools are far from home.