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by Chelsea Allinger
“If doctors and other health experts designed our cities, they would look quite different than the sprawling communities we see today,” said Sonal R. Patel, M. D. , American Lung Association in California Board Member and Director of White... For example, in a new study , the American Lung Association in California has thrown its support behind that state’s plans for more smart growth communities because of the striking positive health implications. Like many Americans, I grew up knowing only one type of community design — drivable suburbia . In my community, exercise wasn’t something that happened naturally over the course of the day. Moving to a walkable, mixed-use, smart growth community quite literally changed my life — with, as it turns out, more significant health benefits than I’d initially realized....
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