![]() ![]() Among children ages 12 to 19, only 8 percent get recommended levels. In America, only 42 percent of children ages 6 to 11 meet this threshold. The Centers for Disease Control recommend 60 minutes of daily aerobic activity for children. The research team said developing smart growth communities and retrofitting existing neighborhoods for greater walkability could be key to helping kids get the recommended level of physical activity. In the Houston area, home values in walkable neighborhoods are 40.5 higher than those in car-dependent neighborhoods. Cortright himself has estimated each additional point of Walk Score is worth 3,500. “Ten minutes of extra activity a day may not sound like much, but it adds up.” metros, homes in areas considered highly walkable are worth more than comparable homes in a less walkable area. the town of breezewood, Pennsylvania is so unwalkable, sterile and devoid of life. “We were surprised by the size of the effect,” lead author Michael Jerrett, Ph.D., professor in the School of Public Health at Berkeley, told Science Daily. urbanplanning walkability carcentric urbanism'. That translates to 46 percent more exercise for children in walkable communities. The research team found that children living in the smart growth neighborhood got ten more minutes of physical activity per day than kids in the more sprawling communities. ![]() All the children were between ages 8 and 14. They were compared to a control group of 88 kids from eight nearby “conventional” communities, with similar demographic and income characteristics. Researchers from UC Berkeley monitored the activity of 59 children living at The Preserve - a planned community near Chino, California, designed to be more walkable than conventional subdivisions - using GPS tracking monitors and accelerometers worn on the waist. The 24 largest cities in Kansas (the most populous cities in KS are Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City) have an average Walk Score of 34. Image: # Journal of Preventative Medicine# Kids who live in a community planned for walkability got significantly more daily physical activities than those who lived in sprawling places. A study published this month in the American Journal of Preventive Health finds that children who live in walkable places - “smart growth neighborhoods,” to use the authors’ phrase - get significantly more exercise than their peers who live in suburban environments designed for driving. ![]()
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