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"Walking and cycling should become the norm for short journeys"

  • 28-11-2012 9:32am
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    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭


    .....according to a Report published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK......

    "Walking and cycling should become the norm for short journeys and should be encouraged throughout local communities says NICE, in new guidance published today (28 November). Local authorities, schools and workplaces should introduce ways to enable their communities to be more physically active and change their behaviours.

    Regular physical activity is crucial to achieving and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It can help to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes by up to 50%, and is also important for good mental health.

    At present, we [the UK] are not active enough as a nation - around two-thirds (61%) of men and nearly three-quarters (71%) of women aged 16 and over are not physically active enough. Just over half of boys aged two to 10 years old and a third of girls in the same age group achieve the recommended level of daily physical activity. Physical inactivity is the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality (accounting for 6% of deaths globally).

    Walking is the most common recreational and sporting activity undertaken by adults in Britain, with cycling the fourth most common. The majority (85.8%) of adults claim that they can ride a bicycle, yet the average time spent travelling on foot or by bicycle has decreased; from 12.9 minutes per day in 1995/97 to 11 minutes per day in 2007. Cycle use is lower in Britain than it is in other European Union countries; bicycles are used in around 2% of journeys in Britain compared with about 26% of journeys in the Netherlands, 19% in Denmark and 5% in France."


    Nice, if they can change things.....:D


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