A new study in today's New England Journal of Medicine has found that mothers who move from very poor areas to less disadvantaged ones can improve their rates of obesity and diabetes. "People's health habits are often constrained by the choices they face in their neighborhoods," said Robert Whitaker, a co-author on the study and a researcher at Temple's Center for Obesity Research and Education. "This study is one of the strongest pieces of evidence yet that improving the environments where low-income families live can have a meaningful impact on their risk of chronic disease."