Weebles Wobble But They Don't Fall Down

University of Texas' Dr. Chandra Bhat apparently gets paid to do some pretty obvious studies. We could be wrong; we're no scientists, socially or otherwise, but we figure some things don't require hours and hours research and thousands of dollars in funding. For instance, Dr. Bhat recently released a study that came to the conclusion that children are more physically active when parents encourage it. Hmmm. Astounding. To be fair, however, the results did not stop there. The research also indicated that children are more physically active when they live in neighborhoods conducive to outdoor activity. Therefore kids living closer to parks or in neighborhoods with more bike lanes generally get out and play more. Guess the whole "go play in traffic" thing never really caught on. Well, not exactly rocket science, but we guess it's helpful to know.

Bhat also found that 32% of children studied use the weekends for their outdoor physical activity. Seems to make sense. We are assuming during the week, if they are not on organized sports teams, after school they just head home, grab some Ding Dongs, fire up the PS2 and the AOL Instant Messenger and sit on their fat asses all evening, while their parents are probably both working or sitting in front of the tv themselves after a tiring day. God bless, America.

Some other interesting numbers, which seem to only open the conversation up to inane stereotype jokes of the most base level, indicate that boys are more active than girls and that Asian children are the least active while Hispanic children are most physically active. Not real sure what any of that means. Bt we like to pass along the knowledge to you. So there ya go.