Quote Originally Posted by Rubah Lapah View Post
Penn State College of Education : Childhood Obesity May Be More Prevalent in Rural Areas

That is not the article, but it says the same thing. See the third and fourth paragraphs.

I don't think this was it either, but it also says the same thing: Healthy Food Choices Scarcer in Rural Areas, Study Says | Daily Yonder

Living in Junk Food County | Newsweek Health for Life | Newsweek.com
Changing lifestyles to fight obesity in the Delta—a tale of three communities | Agricultural Research | Find Articles at BNET.com

Mirage, it's practically impossible to find fruits and vegetables in rural areas. We aren't talking towns. We're talking settlements of people living miles apart who live 20 or more miles from any place that could sell them anything resembling healthy food. People will put gas stations out there, and that's where some people go for food. There is just not enough population to support mass grocery stores (they still wouldn't buy there as they'd have to spend way more money. Even gas is more expensive out there). You're thinking of this with a european perspective, I'm sure, so maybe it's hard to imagine miles and miles of trees and pastures where there simply isn't civilization past one street towns with a gas station and a church.

These are the areas where people used to be self-sufficient, you know, farming the land and stuff. Except times changed and it wasn't self sufficient anymore unless you owned a lot of acreage and had a mass operation. There are no facilities there because they were the facilities and now they aren't.
Im not sure what you mean by "European perspective... The population density is lower here in Norway than it is in the USA. I always imagined my town (and calling it a town is an exaggeration imo) to be small, even by Norwegian standards, and theres more people in Washington than in all of Norway. I suppose it was just hard to imagine that there would be a lot of places smaller than that in the US. I mean, I realize there would probably be a few, but not a whole lot of them.
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I mixed up the state Washington with Washington DC. Fixed now.