{"id":207712950,"date":"2011-08-02T02:02:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T02:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=207712950"},"modified":"2011-08-02T02:02:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T02:02:30","slug":"whos-walking-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=207712950","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s walking to school?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by: Saundra Young &#8211; CNN Medical Senior Producer<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;The study is important for the well-being of children because most children are not meeting physical activity guidelines needed for optimal growth and development,&quot; explained Roman Pabayo of the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre and lead author of the study.  &quot;Active transportation to school represents an affordable and easy way to incorporate physical activity in the daily routines of children.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;As they age, they are probably most likely to have access to a vehicle through friends and older siblings,&quot; Pabayo said. &quot;There still is more room for children to use active transportation to school, our challenge is to raise the proportion of students that uses active transportation to school.&quot;<br \/>\nA study Pabayo conducted last year found children aged 6 to 8 who consistently walked or cycled to school lowered their BMI scores during a three-year period.<br \/>\nPabayo acknowledges that safety is a concern. &quot;We need interventions to help allow parents to be more comfortable allowing their kids to walk school.&quot;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thechart.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/07\/04\/whos-walking-to-school\/\">https:\/\/thechart.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/07\/04\/whos-walking-to-school\/<\/a>oldId.20110802020230950<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by: Saundra Young &#8211; CNN Medical Senior Producer &#8230; &quot;The study is important for the well-being of children because most children are not meeting physical activity guidelines needed for optimal growth and development,&quot; explained Roman Pabayo of the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre and lead author of the study. &quot;Active transportation to school represents &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=207712950\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who&#8217;s walking to school?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207712950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207712950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207712950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207712950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207712950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207712950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207712950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}