{"id":136621788,"date":"2009-05-01T06:29:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T06:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=136621788"},"modified":"2009-05-01T06:29:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T06:29:48","slug":"public-transit-users-three-times-more-likely-to-meet-fitness-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=136621788","title":{"rendered":"Public Transit Users Three Times More Likely To Meet Fitness Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nThe study, published in the Journal of Public Health Policy, finds that people who take public transit are three times more likely than those who don&#8217;t to meet the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada&#8217;s suggested daily minimum of physical activity.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAccording to the study, people who drove the most were the least likely to meet the recommended level of physical activity.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The idea of needing to go to the gym to get your daily dose of exercise is a misperception,&quot; says Frank, the J. Armand Bombardier Chairholder in Sustainable Transportation and a researcher at the UBC Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability. &quot;These short walks throughout our day are historically how we have gotten our activity. Unfortunately, we&#8217;ve engineered this activity out of our daily lives.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/03\/090326134014.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/03\/090326134014.htm<\/a>oldId.20090501062948769<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; The study, published in the Journal of Public Health Policy, finds that people who take public transit are three times more likely than those who don&#8217;t to meet the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada&#8217;s suggested daily minimum of physical activity. &#8230; According to the study, people who drove the most were the least &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=136621788\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Public Transit Users Three Times More Likely To Meet Fitness Guidelines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136621788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mass-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136621788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136621788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136621788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136621788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136621788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136621788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}