Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
After reading a page of air-head stuff, I gave up looking for any reference or comparison to any other city and the health/longevity of its residents. Does the article ever get down to making such a comparison or is it just claiming that New Yorkers health is improving because in the last few years climbing the subway steps and walking patterns has changed from what it has been for the last 40 or 50 years in NYC?
I don’t know about the original statistical report mentioned in the article, but the journalist only mentions a comparison between New York and the USA as a whole. He also discusses the alternate explanation - that health-conscious people tend to choose to live in New York, rather than New York making people healthy, and concludes that both are partly true.