Hm. So if you have kids, odds are they’ll be doing more walking today than on most days. The only problem is that they’ll also be eating more partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and corn syrup than on most days.
Here’s a horrible chart from the CDC:
[The figure above shows the prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents, by age group, in the United States during 1963-2008.]
Why is anyone talking about ebola? I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that safe routes to school might help fix this long-term trend.