Surprisingly cycling can be good for you

[marshmella]

I don't suppose it helps if you have smoked for 50 years as well as cycling as I have emphysema and one blocked blood vessel in my heart .

Just think what state you'd be in if you hadn't cycled

 

[winjim]

I don't suppose it helps if you have smoked for 50 years as well as cycling as I have emphysema and one blocked blood vessel in my heart .

The study corrects for that. But then of course the study suggests an association rather than a causal link, and tells you nothing about effects at the individual level anyway.

 

[flake99please]

It takes years of zen like practice to learn to bimble.

I took the cheats option and bought a trike. 200 yards down the road, and I had mastered bimbling along.

 

[mustang1]

That's it! I'm not gonna renew my rock climbing subscription. Now I'll definitely get a bike.

 

[boydj]

I am virtually immortal since I also drink red wine. There's another 26% for you.

Add some dark chocolate (90%) and virtual becomes reality.

 

[growingvegetables]

I don't suppose it helps if you have smoked for 50 years as well as cycling as I have emphysema and one blocked blood vessel in my heart .

'“You could say that for every hour you cycle, you get an hour back in return. So it adds to your life actually,” Carlijn Kamphuis, from the Dutch University of Utrecht'
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"The time it takes you to smoke a cigarette equals the time that cigarette takes off of your life." - the Tobacco Fact File.

= I'M WINNING!



[Edited with an afterthought - that means ............ if I cycle REAL SLOOOOOW, so each journey takes twice as long. And smoke each cigarette twice as fast. So I could smoke four times more? And still be winning? Hey - there's a lot to be said for epidemiology .

 

[Alan O]

Just think where you might be if you never cycled.

Still at home

 

[confusedcyclist]

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-your-risk-of-dying-but-thats-not-why-i-do-it

 

[Milzy]

I don't suppose it helps if you have smoked for 50 years as well as cycling as I have emphysema and one blocked blood vessel in my heart .

Can you blame smoking? Some smokers live up to 100. Many non smokers die young.

 

[confusedcyclist]

Increased risk doesn't mean certainty.

 

[palinurus]

TWO-WHEELED TERRORISTS DODGE FAIR SHARE OF CANCER

 

[winjim]

Increased risk doesn't mean certainty.

There's no such thing as certainty. Only ever decreasing levels of uncertainty.

 

[johnnyb47]

Some nights whilst out on the bike i think my life is going to pretty soon struggling up those Welsh hills lol.

 

[Milzy]

Running is bad for you *whistle*

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

There's no such thing as certainty. Only ever decreasing levels of uncertainty.

How can you be so sure?