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Unhealthy neighbourhoods play big role in obesity, diabetes epidemic
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
May. 17, 2011
There is a worldwide epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Canada’s two million cases of diabetes are expected to double over the next decade, according to a 2008 report from the Canadian Diabetes Association. Three times as many young teenagers are overweight now as there were 25 years ago… People who live in the northern, unwalkable fringes of low-income Toronto… will live about 20 fewer years than those in downtown, vibrant neighbourhoods
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