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Flights feel much shorter when you're working them, especially since you get to walk around and drink free cocktails. As a passenger, I used to spend my flight ignoring the flight attendants' seat-belt speech and wondering if they had been hot in their 20s; as a flight attendant, I could gossip about passengers and compare restaurants around the world with my co-workers. No one was going to knock on our lavatory door if we didn't want them...
...actually not free. Although places like Copenhagen, Lyons and Barcelona are big on bike-sharing, the City of Lights boasts the crème de la crème, with 20,600 bikes and about 1,450 stations--four times the number of Parisian metro stops. It's hard to walk more than two blocks without running into a bike rack, which helps explain why the program has already yielded a 5% drop in car traffic. Paris has also removed lots of parking spots to make way for bike stations...
...rugged natural beauty, where physical activity is all but mandatory and 14 triathlons were held last year--including one for kids as young as 3. But Boulder, with a population of more than 90,000 people, is large and dense; if you live in town, you can probably walk or bike to school. Chances are your family is at least middle class--the median income in Boulder County is significantly higher than the U.S. average. That means your parents can afford to shop at the many health-food stores in the city, where the organic chain Whole Foods moved...
...where nearly all the food options are found at a handful of liquor stores and bodegas. Each prominently displays candy and packaged snacks; only a few small retailers carry produce--and unappetizing produce at that. "Would you buy this?" she asks, pointing to a handful of bruised cantaloupes. "You walk in, and you see candy, soda and chips. Nothing healthy." It's no surprise that a recent study found that the obesity rate among fifth-, seventh- and ninth-graders in the 10 poorest communities in Los Angeles County was 32%, compared with 8% for the city's 10 wealthiest communities...
Another, often overlooked, factor is the simple matter of safety. Urban children should get at least one break in trying to stay healthy, since the greater density of city life makes it easier to walk to school, the park or just about anyplace else. But that advantage often evaporates in poorer neighborhoods, where recreational areas can be few and walking anywhere is perceived to be dangerous. Xuemei Zhu, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University, surveyed the neighborhoods of Austin and found that even in dense communities, parents often refused to allow kids to walk to school, fearing they...