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Whitty, cycling, health and the elephant in the room

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Subject: Whitty, cycling, health and the elephant in the room
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 08:52:30 +0000
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by: Spike - Fri, 25 Mar 2022 08:52 UTC

Sir Chris Whitty, the government’s chief medical officer for England,
has urged people to get cycling, claiming that "exercise is among the
“most effective ways of improving health"

Whitty went on to claim, without mentioning any actual data, that " if
you went back to the ’50s and ’60s there were extremely high rates of
people cycling for work as well as recreationally across the country".

What Whitty failed to mention is that in high-cycling 1950, average life
spans were 66 for men and 72 for women. As cycling declined, people
became healthier and lived longer, and with today's low level of
cycling, people now live to 79 for men and 83 for women.

The data is clear: if you want to live, stay off bicycles.

--
Spike

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world. -- Richard Armour

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Whitty, cycling, health and the elephant in the room	Spike