While women are known for watching their figures and scrupulously counting their calorie intake, they tend to be forgetting another important aspect in their diet: don’t live near a restaurant.
In Buffalo, US, there’s a Tim Horton’s fast-food restaurant on every street corner and not too far away a Jim’s Steak Out restaurant which may be causing a decrease in skinny jean sales.
Researchers of Buffalo University conducted a study that showed that women whose homes were closer to supermarkets tended to have a lower body mass index (BMI) than women whose homes had a great number of restaurants within walking distance.
This study tried to explain the irony of high BMI rates in women who live in walkable inner city neighbourhoods, therefore having the opportunity to be active, but who chose as their main form of exercise a walk from their doorstep to a local restaurant.
Source: http://skunkpost.com
