Healthy Suburbs

I have finally decided on my blog 2 subject, healthy suburbs. Although i had never heard of Anne Kavanagh or the Viclanes project after a quick google i found this subject quite interesting. VICLanes stands for the Victorian Lifestyle and Neighborhoods Environment Study. The study was conducted over 3 years and looked at 5000 people in different socio-economic status areas around melbourne. The report says that where you live can influence what you eat, how much you exersise and even how much you weigh. Some of the interesting findings were that lower socio economic areas had twice as many fast food outlets, and less walking tracks. Some obvious findings were that lower socio ecomic men drank to dangerous levels. One of the more unusual findings was that those people in lower socio economic areas had greater access to fruit and veg. In saying this the cost of buying fruit and veg took up a big percentage of these people's wages. I think this report is really interesting but can't really be applied to rural areas or inner city areas. The first thing i thought of when i read about the fast food outlets was my recent trip to inner city melbourne, i couldn't walk 3 steps without being confronted by the flashing lights of a fast food outlet! The inner city is made up of units and apartments with people of high economic status living in them, it would be difficult for these people to find fruit and veg in there local 7/11's. Anyway these are just a couple of ideas for my blog! If you are interested you can find some findings on