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by judge2020
1561 days ago
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From a 2014 study in Norfolk, UK[0] (note: UK should have relatively similar child obesity rates as the US at this time, given they only surpassed the US in 2018[1]): > This study shows that young people living closer to school are more likely to walk to school than those living further away (Panter et al., 2008, Pont et al., 2009). The novel contribution of this work is the identification of the threshold distances that children walk to school, and that this increases as young people age; the criterion distances were 1421 m (0.8 miles) at 10 years, 1627 m (~1 mile) at 11 years and 3046 m (~1.9 miles) at 14 years. However, note that US suburbs are often vastly more spread out while servicing the same size population: for example, Worcester, England at 100k population is only 12 square miles[2] and Chico California with 100k population is 34 square miles[3]. 0: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135382921... 1: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5750341/Bigger-11-y... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester,_England 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico,_California |
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