http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Cycling cures cancer en Sun, 17 May 2026 23:30:19 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1389#post-13036 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:16:57 +0000 Dave 13036@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well, if you take up cycling you'll invariably be run over by a car, and if you avoid that fate, fall off on your own account and die horribly that way.</p> <p>So long as cycling is seen as something dangerous that requires special survival equipment / training (carefully not mentioning any specifics), you could perhaps argue that the rational decision for most people *is* to get sedentary and fat and die early of preventable disease.</p> <p>Because a violent death in the near future makes even that look like a good outcome :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1389#post-13016 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:11:21 +0000 cb 13016@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Colon cancer.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11264372">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11264372</a></p> <p>"If UK trends in obesity and activity stayed as they are now, the predicted figure of approximately 35,000 cases a year is reached by 2040."</p> <p>"And if the UK managed to match levels of physical exercise in The Netherlands - the best among the countries studied, that would prevent approximately 2,000 cases."</p> <p>Cycling isn't actually mentioned, but... earlier this morning the story was illustrated with a picture of a large bike park somewhere in the Netherlands.</p> <p>Wonder why they changed it? </p>