Photo courtesy Sabine Bungert via Beauty and the Bike project. Girls who walked or biked to school in a recent Spanish study performed better at school in verbal and math skills then their cohorts who rode the bus or rode a car, according to this story from Reuters News . And the longer the girls in the study commuted, the better they performed – regardless of how much other exercise and sports activity they reported. What is interesting is that improved test results didn’t hold… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Biking Makes Teens Smarter (But Just the Girls)