Study: Access to local trails lowers youth obesity
By Nathan Hurst, Springfield News-Leader
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Researchers at the University of Missouri and the University of Minnesota have found that local governments can help cut record levels of youth obesity by expanding public lands available for recreation.
Sonja Wilhelm-Stanis, an associate professor of parks, recreation and tourism in the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, found that counties with more non-motorized nature trails and forest lands have higher levels of youth activity and lower youth obesity, while counties with more nature preserves have lower activity levels.
Wilhelm Stanis, along with her co-authors Andrew Oftedal and Ingrid Schneider from the University of Minnesota, studied data from every county in the state of Minnesota, comparing youth activity rates and youth obesity rates to amount of public non-motorized nature trails, motorized nature trails, nature preserves, parklands and forest land.
More taxpayer money spent on welfare for so called teachers.
Yeah, those so called teachers should be doing something productive-or at least constructive, like teaching ‘civics and diabetic dumpster-diving: being a nice American while performing creative low-glucose diet ‘shopping’ for your kids while ‘they’ play video-war in a post-production capitalist consumerist society. Or maybe we could just give the education/research grants to Novartis for educational outreach, tort-reform lobbying and legal fees.
Legal, your contempt for/towards teachers is misplaced and very narrow minded. Did you get your subject matter guidance from cj? Sounds like something he would spew…….
Must be the reason why Tahoe kids all look so happy and fit! With all it’s flaws this is still a pretty good place to raise children.