[SVBC] Re: WALKING TO SCHOOL ENCOURAGES MORE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

[Richard Swent]

David desJardins wrote:

> Furthermore, the children of parents who believe in walking to school,
> rather than drive-everywhere, are going to be more fit in the first
> place, just because of who their parents are.  That's another source of
> correlation between walking to school and other physical activity.  You
> don't need to waste money on a fancy study with accelerometers to figure
> that out.

Actually, this study referred to an earlier one that was performed on
younger children and found that walking to school did NOT result in any
overall increase in their activity. Those who walked to school were less
active at other times, which cancelled out their walking. That was a
surprise, and one of the reasons that fancy studies need to be done instead
of relying on our intuition.

Rich