Category: active kids

Hiking With Children

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Hiking With Children: Hitting the Trail with Kids On a first glance going camping with children seems like a scary proposition. Everything goes wrong and the adventurous parents often end up looking like irresponsible idiots. But is that actually true? Is it actually that dangerous to go out on the open road and the forest …

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Relationship between biking, walking, & obesity

There’s yet another study out showing the relationship between active travel (biking & walking to get from here to there) vs. car travel and the relationship to obesity rates. Infographic by The National Building Museum in Washington DC, USA. It’s no surprise that where children utilize human-powered transportation to get to (for example) school as …

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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2011/01/10/relationship-between-biking-walking-obesity/