{"id":125107,"date":"2021-07-18T08:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T15:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/where-you-live-can-greatly-affect-your-heart-and-brain-health"},"modified":"2021-07-18T08:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T15:22:32","slug":"where-you-live-can-greatly-affect-your-heart-and-brain-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/where-you-live-can-greatly-affect-your-heart-and-brain-health","title":{"rendered":"Where You Live Can Greatly Affect Your Heart and Brain Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/where-you-live-can-greatly-affect-your-heart-and-brain-health.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Something to consider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole idea of lifestyle choices as something everyone can tap into is misleading, when in fact that choice is constrained by what is available to people,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is where policy solutions or investments into these neighborhoods to make up for historical disinvestment becomes so important.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Summary: <\/em><\/strong><em>The neighborhood you live in could have an impact on your brain and cardiovascular health, a new study reports.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: <\/em><\/strong><em>American Heart Association<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Liz Harris won\u2019t let anything stop her from walking. Three mornings a week, she descends three flights of stairs and heads to Anacostia Park. It\u2019s a 10-minute walk just to get there. If none of her friends are available, she walks alone. But they worry about her when she does.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe community is known for crime, and you don\u2019t feel comfortable walking alone,\u201d said Harris, 72, who lives in southeastern Washington, D.C.\u2019s Ward 8. But that\u2019s not her only concern. Unleashed dogs in the park make her wary. The streets along the way are uneven and in disrepair. Heavy traffic can contribute to poor air quality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/where-you-live-can-greatly-affect-your-heart-and-brain-health\">Continue reading \u201cWhere You Live Can Greatly Affect Your Heart and Brain Health\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something to consider. \u201cThe whole idea of lifestyle choices as something everyone can tap into is misleading, when in fact that choice is constrained by what is available to people,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is where policy solutions or investments into these neighborhoods to make up for historical disinvestment becomes so important.\u201d Summary: The neighborhood you [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,47,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-neuroscience","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}