{"id":290553129,"date":"2014-03-17T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=290553129"},"modified":"2014-03-17T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T21:12:09","slug":"cycling-is-good-for-you-part-2869-vigorous-exercise-reduces-flu-risk-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=290553129","title":{"rendered":"Cycling is good for you part 2,869: vigorous exercise reduces flu risk, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by John Stevenson , Road.CC<br \/>\nIt\u2019s well known that being fit and active reduces your risk of heart problems and a host of other diseases of a sedentary lifestyle. A new study suggests that at least two and a half hours of vigorous exercise a week &#8211; including what the authors term \u2018fast cycling\u2019 &#8211; cuts the risk of catching flu by around 10% too.<br \/>\nBut gentle activity has little effect; the activity has to be hard enough that it makes you sweat or breathe hard, according to experts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/road.cc\/content\/news\/114369-cycling-good-you-part-2869-vigorous-exercise-reduces-flu-risk-study-suggests\">https:\/\/road.cc\/content\/news\/114369-cycling-good-you-part-2869-vigorous-exercise-reduces-flu-risk-study-suggests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Stevenson , Road.CC It\u2019s well known that being fit and active reduces your risk of heart problems and a host of other diseases of a sedentary lifestyle. A new study suggests that at least two and a half hours of vigorous exercise a week &#8211; including what the authors term \u2018fast cycling\u2019 &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=290553129\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cycling is good for you part 2,869: vigorous exercise reduces flu risk, study suggests&#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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290553129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290553129","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=290553129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290553129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290553129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290553129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290553129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}