Excerpt from New Your Times:
Ms. Gordon-Larsen’s research, published two years ago in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found that active commuters cut their odds of obesity by 50 percent. They had lower blood pressure, body mass and triglyceride levels (fat in the blood).
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https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/sports/hitting-the-road-to-get-to-work-and-back.htmloldId.201110091514361
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Worthy of note here is that active commuting "cuts the risk of obesity by 50%." It does not eliminate obesity. As policymakers finally start to grasp the link between active transportation and health, one unfortunate side effect has been a further stigmatization of overweight people in the public discourse, as if everyone who lives an environmentally conscious, sustainable lifestyle will automatically be thin regardless of their genes and hormones and overweight people are inactive, drive SUVs, and eat at McDonald’s every day. As we work to get people onto bikes (and out of cars in general) we need to be mindful of inclusiveness.