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hoefla in reply to @russmeyer

Isn't there a bit of a cause vs correlation issue with this?

“Cycle commuters had a 52 per cent lower risk of dying from heart disease and a 40 per cent lower risk of dying from cancer. They also had 46 per cent lower risk of developing heart disease and a 45 per cent lower risk of developing cancer at all,” the study’s authors wrote.

Just let those numbers soak in a bit. They truly are significant. If a pharmaceutical company created a pill that could reduce your chance of dying by almost half, with particular success against those stubborn scourges of humanity of cancer and heart disease, it would be heralded as a wonder drug. Luckily, this pill is already hanging from the rafters of your garage.

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starfish&coffee in reply to @hoefla

IIRC, the various Scandinavian studies have always been hesitant to claim cause/effect, and instead talks of finding a link.

This Swdish one for example:
" Researchers noted no minimum distance or time requirement, but they were clear that the results were observational. There is no strict cause-and-effect relationship between commuter biking and cardiovascular health. "

There's also a huge Danish one, but struggle to find it right now.

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