A health problem that affects millions of people all over the globe is childhood obesity. A way to have a decrease in the amount of childhood obesity is by there being an increase in the amount of physical activity that is done. One thing that is made and maintained with the likelihood of increasing physical activity is having walkable built environments. For the main point of the following study we will be looking at children and obesity and their BMI z-scores and if the walkable built environment had any effect on the children’s obesity at all. This study was done by using a database. There were records of around 50,000 adolescents and children that came from 14 pediatric practices which took note of the children’s race, birth, sex and dates
