{"id":13980,"date":"2011-12-14T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=13980"},"modified":"2011-12-14T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T18:16:00","slug":"bikes-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/bikes-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikes and Health: What Can We Learn from Europe? (Infographic)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are we Americans driving ourselves to obesity&#8230; literally? Yep, we love our cars here&#8230; but our reliance on them for nearly all of our transportation could be killing us&#8230; and costing us a ton of money. We&#8217;ve looked before at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2011\/08\/bicycling-benefits-economic-growth\/\">economic impact of bicycling infrastructure<\/a>, but creating more opportunity for biking could also save us a bundle on health care costs&#8230; and we only need to look to Europe for evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Spend some time with the facts on this infographic, and then let us know what you think. Are we shooting ourselves in the foot financially (as well as health-wise) by not investing in better bicycling infrastructure?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcaremanagementdegree.com\/biking-and-health\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.healthcaremanagementdegree.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/biking-and-health.gif\" alt=\"Biking And Health\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCreated by: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcaremanagementdegree.com\/\">Healthcare Management Degree<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we Americans driving ourselves to obesity&#8230; literally? Yep, we love our cars here&#8230; but our reliance on them for nearly all of our transportation could be killing us&#8230; and costing us a ton of money. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":13981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,7],"tags":[823,10,102,404,53,2013],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bikes and Health: An Infographic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Can building better infrastructure for bikes cut health care costs? 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