How Trees, Cars, Streets, And Sidewalks Affect Our Heart Health

How trees, cars, streets, and sidewalks affect our heart healthFrom the article provided by Blue zones, a lot of knowledge was gained on how our neighborhood affects the risk for heart disease. For instance, our health is affected when one doesn’t have access to clean drinking water, garbage collection, hydro, and heat. The built environment or human-made community design and infrastructure relates to behaviors such as poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and risk factors such as diabetes and obesity. All these factors are believed to be factors for heart disease. Also, with the expansion of cities after the second world war, many people preferred to live in separate single homes hence the development of suburbs. This life requires people to use a car in their daily activities such as work and shopping. People using cars frequently are at risk of becoming obese.The absence of sidewalks in various communities also discourages walking. Communities provided with sidewalks are usually more active compared to others without. One should think clearly while planning these walkways to encourage community members to walk after coming homing or when going to other places such as the gym. Grid-like pattern community set up with a mix of residential, commercial,