Comments on: Food and class in Britain http://hailbritannia.com/2008/10/02/food-and-class-in-britain/ An Anglophile's Blog From the Wrong Side of the Pond Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:47:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: dianaburrell http://hailbritannia.com/2008/10/02/food-and-class-in-britain/comment-page-1/#comment-5 dianaburrell Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:24:54 +0000 http://hailbritannia.com/?p=36#comment-5 I'd be curious to learn if that's true, B. It seems like neighborhoods in cities like NY and SF are a little more fluid than they are in London. I’d be curious to learn if that’s true, B. It seems like neighborhoods in cities like NY and SF are a little more fluid than they are in London.

]]> By: dianaburrell (Diana Burrell) http://hailbritannia.com/2008/10/02/food-and-class-in-britain/comment-page-1/#comment-211 dianaburrell (Diana Burrell) Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:51:43 +0000 http://hailbritannia.com/?p=36#comment-211 Food and Class in Britain: There was a fascinating article in yesterday’s Guardian that claime.. http://tinyurl.com/4xl5cf Food and Class in Britain: There was a fascinating article in yesterday’s Guardian that claime.. http://tinyurl.com/4xl5cf

]]> By: E.B. Hughes http://hailbritannia.com/2008/10/02/food-and-class-in-britain/comment-page-1/#comment-2 E.B. Hughes Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:22:56 +0000 http://hailbritannia.com/?p=36#comment-2 Diana- "Travel the eight stops on the Jubilee line tube from Central London’s Westminster to Canning Town and you find a decrease in life expectancy of nearly one year for each station going east.” I bet the same kind of figures would become evident if you looked at similar data for train lines out of NYC to NJ and CT, subways in NYC, BART in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Chicago train network. Whether or not public health gurus have tracked the numbers that way, I don't know but it'll show up if not in life expectancy in things like asthma, obesity and probably school testing scores. ebh Diana-

“Travel the eight stops on the Jubilee line tube from Central London’s Westminster to Canning Town and you find a decrease in life expectancy of nearly one year for each station going east.”

I bet the same kind of figures would become evident if you looked at similar data for train lines out of NYC to NJ and CT, subways in NYC, BART in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Chicago train network. Whether or not public health gurus have tracked the numbers that way, I don’t know but it’ll show up if not in life expectancy in things like asthma, obesity and probably school testing scores.

ebh

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