{"id":766,"date":"2010-12-11T19:03:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T18:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=766"},"modified":"2010-12-11T19:03:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T18:03:54","slug":"not-too-serious-cycling-and-the-bmj-xmas-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2010\/12\/11\/not-too-serious-cycling-and-the-bmj-xmas-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Not too serious &#8211; Cycling and the BMJ Xmas edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bikebiz.com\/cimages\/8c2dd2af6fff0687f93f62466e5a33dd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wondering whether to spend an extra $1000 to speed the ride to work? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/341\/bmj.c6801.full\" target=\"_blank\">first evidence-based analysis<\/a> of type of bike vs time to get to work suggest you are better off donating the $$ to a worthy charity.<\/p>\n<p>Moving higher up the evidence-based ladder (this is serious now) find great material on the subject of bike riding and health from <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/medicine\/foundation\/research\/bauman.php\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Bauman<\/a>. Links include a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mja.com.au\/public\/issues\/190_07_060409\/bau10159_fm.html\" target=\"_blank\">short piece in the Medical Journal of Australia <\/a>(MJA) and a fantastic<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingpromotion.com.au\/images\/stories\/downloads\/CPFHlthRpr08V3prf1.pdf\"> larger summary (1.2 MB PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although these both relate to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ashes\" target=\"_blank\">Ashes-losing<\/a> country Australia, the principles are widely applicable. Cycling is a fantastic way of promoting health and staying green. Remember that the <a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/43\/1\/1.full\">death rates\u00a0from physical inactivity are twice those of smoking<\/a>&#8230;<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering whether to spend an extra $1000 to speed the ride to work? The first evidence-based analysis of type of bike vs time to get to work suggest you are better off donating the $$ to a worthy charity. Moving higher up the evidence-based ladder (this is serious now) find great material on the subject [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2010\/12\/11\/not-too-serious-cycling-and-the-bmj-xmas-edition\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}