Cycling can make people healthy and live longer, and cut public health costs, so why can’t it be prescribed to the nation? That drug is already here, albeit administered in a slightly different way: it’s called cycling to work. At the heart of the issue is what public health experts routinely describe as a pandemic of preventable illness connected to physical inactivity. The first point is the particularly astonishing health improvement brought by cycling, greater so than walking or other moderate activity. Public health experts are not prone to hyperbole, but it’s not uncommon for them to refer to cycling as a miracle pill.

Source: The Guardian September 17, 2017 06:00 UTC