The federal government is spending more than $1.5 million to research how “bicycle trains” and “walking school buses” can help obese children lose weight.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is currently funding two studies to a researcher at Seattle Children’s Hospital, both of which aim to get more children to stop riding the school bus.
Dr. Jason Mendoza has received $405,835 for a pilot study on “bicycle trains,” or a group of kids who bike to school with adult chaperons. The project is billed as a “low-cost, practical program to reduce risk of obesity for at-risk children.”
....The study’s premise is that there is a correlation between the decline in walking to school and the increase in childhood obesity in recent decades.
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