Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A hundred years ago, only two out of 10 people lived in urban areas. Today, more than half of us have chosen a life in the city. By 2050, the number will be seven out of 10. The pace of global urbanisation leaves little time for city planners and policy makers to reinvent the city. However, a reinvention is urgently needed.
Rapid urbanisation is a fast-growing threat to leading sustainable and healthy lives, fuelling bad diets, sedentary lifestyles, increasing stress and rising inequality of access to healthcare. Physical activity is made difficult by a variety of urban factors including low-walkability, high use of cars, and insufficient green spaces. All of which, taken together, contribute to the fact that more than two-thirds of the 380 million people with diabetes live in cities. And these numbers are growing rapidly.
Despite the current lifestyle problems, cities have long been an engine for development and innovation and possess the infrastructure to become sustainable health laboratories.
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/city-lifestyle-slum-health-innovation
Rapid urbanisation is a fast-growing threat to leading sustainable and healthy lives, fuelling bad diets, sedentary lifestyles, increasing stress and rising inequality of access to healthcare. Physical activity is made difficult by a variety of urban factors including low-walkability, high use of cars, and insufficient green spaces. All of which, taken together, contribute to the fact that more than two-thirds of the 380 million people with diabetes live in cities. And these numbers are growing rapidly.
Despite the current lifestyle problems, cities have long been an engine for development and innovation and possess the infrastructure to become sustainable health laboratories.
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/city-lifestyle-slum-health-innovation