{"id":2418,"date":"2013-04-06T11:52:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T22:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=2418"},"modified":"2013-04-06T11:56:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T22:56:49","slug":"cycling-the-wonder-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=2418","title":{"rendered":"Cycling the &#8216;Wonder Drug&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a title=\"European Cycling Federation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ecf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">European Cycling Federation<\/a> in a <a title=\"ECF article on health benefit calculator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ecf.com\/news\/the-cycling-calculator-valuing-the-health-benefits-of-cycling\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent news article<\/a>, a nicely-worded summary-<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2419\" title=\"FuelGauge\" src=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FuelGauge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FuelGauge.jpg 720w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FuelGauge-150x93.jpg 150w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FuelGauge-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cycling is the wonder drug of the transport world. It provides solutions to so many problems and unlike most forms of transport, it has lots of positive side effects. Think about it: people riding bicycles makes no noise, emit no air pollutants or greenhouse gases, they ease traffic congestion\u2026 the list goes on. But the real bread winner for policy makers are the health benefits. The more people cycle, the healthier they are. This means that cyclists don\u2019t just ease congested streets, but they ease congested health systems. \u00a0Higher levels of physical activity translates into reduced morbidity (ill health) and reduced mortality of cyclists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From European Cycling Federation in a recent news article, a nicely-worded summary- Cycling is the wonder drug of the transport world. It provides solutions to so many problems and unlike most forms of transport, it has lots of positive side effects. Think about it: people riding bicycles makes no noise, emit no air pollutants or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}