Do not want to run in the morning, go to the gym and generally keep yourself in shape? Neighbors are to blame..

It is known that members of less well-off families are less likely to engage in sports and maintain themselves in a decent form. As for the reasons for this state of affairs, there may be different opinions: someone will say that a good physical form determines in many ways the income of a person, and someone - that the poor simply have no time to play sports, since they have to work more.

Anyway, in poor areas of western cities, the habit of running around in the morning is much less common than in the more prosperous.

However, as shown by the study of American scientists, the income of each particular inhabitant is by no means the most important factor determining the physical activity of a person. The most important was the average earnings of residents of the district.

Scientists led by Christopher Browning from the University of Ohio studied the sports habits of 8,782 residents of 373 districts of Chicago, comparing them with the data as individual income and family structure of each of them, on the one hand, and the overall socioeconomic situation in the area - on the other. Analysis of the survey showed that the second component is much more important than the first.

In addition, it was found that women are more susceptible to the influence of the environment, as well as men, in families where women occupy a dominant position. In addition to the revenues of neighbors themselves, the level of trust between neighbors is also important, the belief in mutual assistance between them and - which is not surprising for exercises outside the home - representations of residents about the safety of the streets of the district.

Correlation and rating analysis, which applied scientists, also does not give an opportunity to answer the question, what is the reason for such a connection. It is possible that more physically active people at some point simply start to earn more and can afford to move to a more prosperous region, thereby reducing the level of physical activity of their small homeland.

Anyway, scientists are not advised to blame their inability and excess fatty folds on their neighbors. However, the city authorities should understand that the lifestyle of the city's residents is influenced not only by the laying of sidewalks and the breakdown of parks for runs, but also by the general standard of living of people.

The authorities of Russian cities, as a rule, have more pressing problems. Pits on the roads to fall asleep, then think about the sidewalks.

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