In a recent research conducted in Australia, women living in rural areas were found to be more affected with a range of health concerns as compared to those living in posh areas. The collaborative study was done with the efforts of the University of Queensland and the University of Newcastle, who combed through the health records of over 40,000 young, middle-aged and older women since 1996.
"Environments can be what we call obesogenic in that they encourage people to become overweight and obese, as well as individual behavior”, said Co-director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health professor Julie Byles, who is of the opinion that hurdles in accessing medical care is the major factor which has contributed the rise of obesity and other health issues.
The rising prices of vegetables and fruits could put another hurdle in front of letting women eat healthy diet. Though this is to known to almost everyone that those living in rural areas are too active, also there is no second thought that people don’t have to go too far for shopping and other purposes which reduce their physical burn out.
The most disappointing fact is that when the study was started in 1996, obesity rate was less than 10% but now, it has touched the mark of 20%. This fact is self explanatory that health issues have gone too deep into their daily life that somehow they have not been able to avert risk attached with substandard diet.