Opinion: Adopt City Planning Strategies To Improve Health
The California Air Resources Board should adopt plans that "call for regional cooperation in reversing course" on our "auto-centered lifestyle," which has "led people to become more sedentary, putting themselves at higher risk for a string of chronic illnesses," Sonal Patel, a board member of the American Lung Association, writes in a Capitol Weekly opinion piece. Patel writes, "Children's health is especially impacted by our dependence on car travel," adding that children "are falling into the grip of ... preventable diseases at earlier ages and will face life-long challenges as a result."
- "Why Doctors Are Supporting the Drive Toward Sustainable Communities" (Patel, Capitol Weekly, 9/16).