Dutch people exercise nearly twice as much per month compared to British people. A lot of the time, Dutch people aren’t even carving out time to exercise - they’re just going about their daily lives by cycling and walking. Imagine the savings to the NHS if we enabled the same.
Dutch people exercise nearly twice as much per month compared to British people. A lot of the time, Dutch people aren’t even carving out time to exercise - they’re just going about their daily lives by cycling and walking. Imagine the savings to the NHS if we enabled the same.
@adamtranter With @LovetoRide_ Bike Month Challenge it will give prizes for cycling this month whether it is for exercise, commuting, shopping or a ride with the kids 😀. How many people realise they could be in with a chance without changing what they do lovetoride.net
@adamtranter The Netherlands are mainly flat and takes very little effort to cycle. The infrastructure is also there and has been for decades. Also Europe has lower working hours.
@adamtranter Exactly! Unfortunately Gov departments are silos!! Health cannot spend on transport, and transport doesn’t give a monkeys about health! We need infrastructure to cycle, & still no one gets it, that if you can’t park a bike securely & conveniently, you’re much less likely to cycle
@adamtranter Cycling is definitely good for you - unless you are hardly pedaling and using an electric bike all the time.
@adamtranter Have you ever ridden a bicycle? The effort required to even break a sweat is more than people generally exert when using a bicycle to get around - it's akin to a slow walk. If that level of physical exertion was meaningfully beneficial for health, there would be no fat golfers.
@adamtranter Assume they aren't living in a 15 minute city then if they are clocking up that much. That 1.75 hrs a day Inc weekends.
@adamtranter So true. Ironic that you could say exercise could save the NHS from all the expense of dealing with morbid borne illnesses.