Monterey, CA Environment Impacts Health, Both Physical & Mental :

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Staying healthy and happy has a lot to do with environment, and a recent paper published this week in the journal Science adds additional evidence to this argument.  The paper analyzed the impact of a federal housing program called Moving to Opportunity which gave housing vouchers to more than 2,000 low income families so they could move out of impoverished neighborhoods into better housing.  It found that although the move did not help them escape poverty, they ended up with lower rates of diabetes, extreme obesity and anxiety and stress.  With all eyes on the economy now, it's difficult to gauge how to help people which are struggling to get by.  With draconian cuts in many social programs at both the state and federal levels, it is becoming increasingly difficult to do more with less.

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