{"id":14753,"date":"2009-12-08T01:01:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=14753"},"modified":"2009-12-07T22:00:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T03:00:21","slug":"read-and-ride-program-promotes-health-and-reading-in-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/read-and-ride-program-promotes-health-and-reading-in-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Read and Ride Program Promotes Health and Reading in Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"read and ride\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/read-and-ride-program-promotes-health-and-reading-in-kids\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14775\" title=\"read and ride logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/read-and-ride-logo.gif\" alt=\"read and ride logo\" width=\"236\" height=\"27\" \/><\/a>Most of the news coming out on <a title=\"eat this not that for kids\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Eat_This_Not_That_for_Kids\/\" target=\"_self\">children&#8217;s health<\/a> is not that encouraging. Statistics like childhood obesity has tripled since 1980, 18 percent of adolescents are overweight and\u00a0over 10 percent of younger preschool children between ages 2 and 5 are overweight. Add to this that more than 8 million American children in grades 4\u00a0 to 12 struggle to read, write and comprehend adequately.<\/p>\n<p>These are not good-looking numbers for our younger generation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->But a new\u00a0<a title=\"walking bus program\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/the-walking-bus-program-gets-kids-moving\/\" target=\"_self\">children&#8217;s\u00a0health\u00a0program<\/a> called &#8220;Read and Ride&#8221; is doing its part to encourage kids to become more active and better readers. Started in North Carolina at Marvin Ward Elementary School, Read and Ride works with elementary\u00a0schools, teachers and community members to fulfill its mission of <a title=\"25 percent of americans obese\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/25-of-americans-are-obese\/\" target=\"_self\">reducing obesity<\/a> and improving literacy among young American students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s\u00a0how the program works: Teachers\u00a0bring their classrooms into an exercise room filled with stationary bikes. They also hand them an educational magazine like Highlights or National Geographic for Kids. For the next ten or twenty minutes, the students pedal and read.<\/p>\n<p>The first\u00a0Read and Ride program, which is\u00a0based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, had 41 exercise bikes donated\u00a0and they also have one entire classroom at\u00a0the Marvin Ward Elementary\u00a0School dedicated to the program.\u00a0In addition, Ward has 11 bikes in individual classrooms for students to ride as a reward, when they complete their classwork, and when teachers feel they could benefit from releasing some of their extra energy.<\/p>\n<p>Read and Ride\u00a0is the only such program in the nation dedicated to reducing obesity and improving literacy by using exercise bikes and reading.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the program or to start one in your own community, visit the <a title=\"read and ride\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsreadandride.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read and Ride<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the news coming out on children&#8217;s health is not that encouraging. Statistics like childhood obesity has tripled since 1980, 18 percent of adolescents are overweight and\u00a0over 10 percent of younger preschool children between ages 2 and 5 are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/read-and-ride-program-promotes-health-and-reading-in-kids\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1367,18],"tags":[342,92,2717],"class_list":["post-14753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-health","category-fitness","tag-health","tag-obesity","tag-read-and-ride"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14753"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14778,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions\/14778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}