Today UK people are 20% less active than we were in the 1960s. One in four children leave primary school obese. Obesity is the cause of one in six deaths.
Those who habitually travel by bike live longer, healthier lives. Casual cyclists – those for whom riding was a way of life and not merely a get-fit-quick fix – had a 23% better chance of avoiding premature death.1
We also know from a Danish study of 30,000 people over 15 years that those who regularly cycle 15 minutes to work and back are 40% less likely to die than those who do not.2
- Cyclists live longer, a new study suggests | Cycling Today ↩︎
- L Andersen et al (2000) in Peter Walker, The Miracle Pill (2021) p7. ↩︎