Category: Health
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Bike Lanes on Northwest (Bellingham)
This was forwarded from Dan who organized the recent meeting at city hall: Good day, here’s a little update on what’s happening around getting bike lanes on Northwest Ave., Elm St. and Dupont St. and three simple things you can do to help make it happen. The short version of how you can help: Send…
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Agave banned by the Glycemic Research Institute (Cloverbee Foods)
I don’t include agave into my diet, but I suspect that this is important http://cloverbeefoods.com/2011/agave-banned-by-the-glycemic-research-institute/
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Transport and Health (TheCityFix)
Here is a post talking about the World Health Organization putting together a body of evidence that cities that invest in active transportation maintain healthier citizenry. Every year, 1.2 million people die in traffic crashes each year. And physical inactivity is responsible for 3.2 million deaths and 19 million healthy life years lost annually. Dr.…
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Sara Salo and her School Food Bicycle Tour
Let’s not take for granted what our kids eat in school. If you’ve actually looked at a school menu, I think you’d be distinctly disappointed. It’s filled with white flour and sugar: juice, cookies, and some combination of pizza, hamburger, grilled cheese or the like. By some standards that’s a nutritional nightmare. I am fascinated by…
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Is gluten sensitivity the root of many diseases?
This seems to be the hypothesis of doctors James Braly and Ron Hoggan, in “Dangerous Grains: Why Gluten Cereal Grains May Be Hazardous to Your Health”. The authors also indicate that gluten sensitivity is congenital which could explain why asthma, polymyagia, celiac disease and diabetes might also run in families. I probably wont get time…
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Actuary Report: Obesity costs $300BN
Actuary Report, quote from the summary: …the total economic cost of overweightand obesity in the United States and Canada caused by medical costs, excess mortalityand disability is approximately $300 billion per year. The portion of this total due to overweight is approximately $80 billion, and approximately $220 billion is due to obesity. The portion of the…
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Maybe time to convert to a standing workstation? (NYTimes)
IT workers beware: sitting! Inactivity Is Harmful, Even With Trips to the Gym – NYTimes.com.
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Statistics
I quote a comment wrt to the proposed Oregon child bicycle law: According the CDC ( http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/childpas.htm ) : “In the United States during 2005, 1,335 children ages 14 years and younger died as occupants in motor vehicle crashes, and approximately 184,000 were injured.” Accordining to http://www.helmets.org/stats.htm , which sourced it’s data from http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pubs/811156.pdf : 2008 data shows:…
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Brown Cycles makes stoker-forward kid tandems
I love these designs, putting the kids forward is a great idea! Brown Cycles of Grand Junction, Colorado.
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Great points re: proposed OR bike law (Totcycle)
Here’s a post covering a number of good points about why outlawing children under 6 on bikes or trailers is sheer inanity. http://totcycle.com/blog/family-cycling-outlaws.html Yes: obesity epidemic, heighten fear of cars, avoid traffic reduction, avoid slower speed limits, lets use sketchy data from a single survey to pass another law! Lets make it illegal to bike…
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