Healthcare is also associated with wellness facilities, nutrition education, nutritionist, and even just physical education classes in school. But rural towns don’t always have a wellness facilities, and can’t afford nutrition education, and also have less physical education in the school. With the lack of wellness facilities puts rural towns at a higher risk for obesity because they have nowhere to work out like in bigger areas. (Healthcare Access in Rural Communities, 2016) In my town we only have one store to get our food, no Farmers Market or Trader Joes. That means you have one option for your grocery shopping the town otherwise you have to drive awhile to get something. We also only have a rec center that has a little exercise room where you can work out in but there is barely any equipment in there and it is all pretty old and out dated. If you need somewhere to workout you have to drive to a nearby town, but a lot of people don’t like to do that because who would want to drive 25 minutes to a different town to just workout and them come
Healthcare is also associated with wellness facilities, nutrition education, nutritionist, and even just physical education classes in school. But rural towns don’t always have a wellness facilities, and can’t afford nutrition education, and also have less physical education in the school. With the lack of wellness facilities puts rural towns at a higher risk for obesity because they have nowhere to work out like in bigger areas. (Healthcare Access in Rural Communities, 2016) In my town we only have one store to get our food, no Farmers Market or Trader Joes. That means you have one option for your grocery shopping the town otherwise you have to drive awhile to get something. We also only have a rec center that has a little exercise room where you can work out in but there is barely any equipment in there and it is all pretty old and out dated. If you need somewhere to workout you have to drive to a nearby town, but a lot of people don’t like to do that because who would want to drive 25 minutes to a different town to just workout and them come