Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Public Health

Celebrate Bike to Work Week, No Matter What You Weigh

By Tanya Snyder | May 13, 2013 | No Comments

Happy Bike to Work Week, everybody! It’s a great time to give a gentle nudge to someone who you think would benefit from biking. In that vein, personal trainer and fitness coach Stephanie Averkamp of San Diego posted this infographic to her personal health website. She says she especially hopes to convince overweight and obese people to […]

What Should the Surgeon General Say to Get More People Walking?

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 2, 2013 | 15 Comments

What if cars came with a Surgeon General’s warning like the ones that come on cigarette packs: “Sitting in this seat could lead to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression, and divorce.” Surgeon General Regina Benjamin is getting ready to go halfway there. She announced in December that she’d be issuing a call to action on […]

Designing Communities for Longevity: The Blue Zones Project

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 8, 2013 | 6 Comments

Is your neighborhood designed to make people healthy or sick? With the right characteristics, the place where you live could add years to your life. In 2004, Dan Buettner, CEO of the Blue Zones Project, partnered with researchers from National Geographic to study the places around the world that enjoy the greatest longevity. They found that […]

Surgeon General Announces Call to Action on Walking

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 5, 2012 | 5 Comments

Walking can seem like a rather mundane thing to get organized about, until you realize that it’s a direct challenge to car-oriented transportation and it’s the best thing people can do for their health. Then walking is downright revolutionary. Not only that, but it can be joyful. That was the message that the U.S. Surgeon […]

British National Health Experts: Cycling Safer Than Couch Sitting

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 30, 2012 | 1 Comment

A British national health authority is advising UK residents to make walking and cycling the norm for short trips, in order to reduce the risk of chronic diseases associated with the nation’s obesity epidemic. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence issued a 97-page report Wednesday on the topic with a number of recommendations. […]

Infographic: The Many Connections Between Transportation and Health

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 29, 2012 | 4 Comments

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched their “New Public Health” website last year with the goal of meeting community members where they are to talk about public health. A lot of those conversations happen online, and they explore the connections between public health and policy decisions related to everything from education to transportation. Last week, they published an interview with U.S. […]

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