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Most cycle-commuters will tell you cycling to work is the best way to get to and from work and it's probably doing you some good. However a recent major study, published in the British Medical Journal, suggests that the health benefits are staggering, slashing the risk of heart disease and cancer. FTFA:
Research has consistently shown that people who are less physically active are both more likely to develop health problems like heart disease and type 2 diabetes, and to die younger. Yet there is increasing evidence that physical activity levels are on the decline.
The problem is that when there are many demands on our time, many people find prioritising exercise difficult. One answer is to multi-task by cycling or walking to work. We've just completed the largest ever study into how this affects your health.
You can read an article here at The Conversation website and you the original research is here at the BMJ website.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Friday September 08 2017, @01:13PM (1 child)
I live in a recreational city which is into having continuous green strips of parkway running along the river thru its flood plain, so 99.999% of the time when the river isn't flooding, the bicyclists commute on the dedicated bike paths along the river thru the parks. Obviously a city doesn't need a river to have a greenway of parks run thru it, it merely needs good planning (merely, LOL...). The parks are multi-use, obviously, so outside commuter hours the bike paths are mostly full of little kids, which is also good.
Just saying its possible to put bikes on roads, but putting bikes on bike paths inside multi-use parks is even better.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 08 2017, @03:01PM
Absolutely. It's a joy to be able to cycle along and not have to worry about stop signs or traffic lights or cross streets. I solved a lot of code challenges that way by tuning out on the ride to/from work and letting my mind mull over the problem. I was lucky that 2/3rds of the distance I had to ride was within the Hudson River Park and then Riverside Park on the west side of Manhattan, but the protected, on-street bike lanes were appreciated on the other 1/3 where I could get them.
Washington DC delenda est.