In the storybook, when little Heidi got sick, she went to the countryside to recover -- sunshine and meadows. That's where health, and the healthy life, were: in the tidy suburbs and the rosy-cheeked, pastoral countryside.
Cities on the other hand have been seen as a menace to human health -- crowded, dirty, dangerous, centers of industrial waste and crime.
But recently, all that folk wisdom is being challenged. Suburbs have become the overweight empire of the automobile. Rural America has its own problems with poverty and health care.
Urban health is booming. These days, life expectancies are stretching out longest in some of America’s biggest cities. A recently-born New Yorker can now expect to live nine months longer than the average American.
Listen to an On Point discussion about role reversal, and the boom in urban health.
Can you picture the city as the new center of American health? Are you living the healthy urban life? Or still placing your bet on the wide open spaces?
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What are you, some back to the earth wacky hippie commune dwelling liberal????
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