A new study from McMaster University purports to show that where you live in Canada may affect your ability to make healthy choices. In a sense, the study is more informative on the topic of how the public-health world has perfected the art of minimizing individual agency, while simultaneously educating people on the obvious.
So, here we have researchers discovering, for example, that rural areas have more limited varieties of fruits and vegetables available in their grocery stores, as well as more limited access to public transit. And we have researchers concluding from these less-than-shocking results that, hey, that’s probably why people in rural areas aren’t as healthy as their urban counterparts. They’re victims of their postal codes!
Study lead author Russell de Souza explained in a press release, “We believe that this information shows there are factors outside of a person’s control that influence the individual’s health, and these factors likely differ depending on where they live.” In an interview with CBC, de Souza said the study “sort of gets at taking some of the burden off the individuals and understanding that we live in communities which may or may not support healthy decisions.”
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