{"id":4089,"date":"2015-05-09T12:46:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T17:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2015-05-09T12:46:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T17:46:30","slug":"walking-or-biking-to-work-may-help-with-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/walking-or-biking-to-work-may-help-with-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking or biking to work may help with weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Switching from driving to work to walking, cycling, or taking public transit may help commuters lose weight according to an observational study.<\/p>\n<p>By analyzing responses to the British Household Panel Survey from 2004-2007, researchers have found making the switch results in an average weight loss of one kg.\u00a0The longer the commute the stronger the associated weight loss: a 10 minute commute results in approximately two\u00a0kg lost, and a 30 minute commute brings an average loss of seven\u00a0kg.<\/p>\n<p>The results also showed that switching from one of these methods or transportation to driving results in an average weight gain of one\u00a0kg.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals who switched from driving to an alternative mode of transportation were typically younger and less likely to have an easy access to a car.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"dx.doi.org\/10.1136\/jech-2014-205211\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the J<em>ournal of Epidemiology &amp; Community Health\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May\u00a07<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Adam Martin, UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switching from driving to work to walking, cycling, or taking public transit may help commuters lose weight according to an observational study. By analyzing responses to the British Household Panel Survey from 2004-2007, researchers have found making the switch results in an average weight loss of one kg.\u00a0The longer the commute the stronger the associated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1792,51,1647,476,2158],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-exercise","tag-health","tag-human-behaviour","tag-public-health","tag-weight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-13X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}