20 yrs ago, when my niece, and nephew, were hugely fat at the mere age of 4-6, even tho my SIL owned a fucking health club and knew everything about "getting fit" (she doesnt, she knows stuff like stuff you would read in Glamour magazine) **I said kids dont walk to school no more**, no matter how far, and but I also know they don't drive themselves to McDonalds( the ONLY place my nephew ate 3 meals a day for like 5 yrs) and I know they don't earn money to buy McDonalds, and my ILs were at wits' end after the doctor said they were too fat. (like they needed to be told that...my nieces face was literally fatter than my face and I was in my 30s) My MIL announced, like the know-it-all she is, becuz she loves loves loves to contradict anything I say, "IDK why kids today are so fat but it ain't becuz they don't walk to school." Really Gramma? If their little bodies walk several blocks, twice a day, at a normal to quick pace, it likely shaves off some of the cookies you gave them, but don't listen to me....keep shoveling in the hot dogs and cheese, and sausages becuz you LUV them. I know we ate whatever we wanted back in the day when we had permission, plus home-cooked meals, and didn't have all the scheduled activities, we just walked to school and friends' houses, and biked and did pick up games, and we were THIN AS RAILS....but gramma knows best.
By the way, my niece is an attractive young woman, but still struggles, she's built like a brickhouse. All becuz gramma started w/ the junk food and her mama didn't put her foot down when she didn't want her kids to eat that shit.
Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests:
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/children-who-walk-to-school-less-likely-to-be-overweight-or-obese-study-suggests