Some Facts for You All????
03-12-14, 08:19 AM
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Some Facts for You All????
FYI....
Want To Live A Healthier Life? Here Are Some Facts To Consider.
All good on Two Wheels...Think healthy, drive less and pump some steel...
Cheers, Jeff S.
Want To Live A Healthier Life? Here Are Some Facts To Consider.
All good on Two Wheels...Think healthy, drive less and pump some steel...
Cheers, Jeff S.
03-12-14, 11:02 AM
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I don't mean to be contrary nor to rain on your pro biking parade. 
But sometimes things like this can be so misleading and even judgmental.
For instance, this is the final slide. It emphatically states bike "will have...," but not if you slip on sand left over from winter and bang up your knees and can't ride for a month (which happened to me last May). Many of us can fill in our own blanks about how cycling negatively impacts health and well being. Of course this is true for any activity.
Or consider this one:
The bottom part of the slide reports that biking as children reduces the chance of being an obese adult by 48%. I guess that it also means that there is a 52% chance of being obese as an adult if you cycled a great deal as a child. This describes me very well. I biked a great deal as a child, a teen, and young adult. Didn't bike much in my 30s. But picked it back up in my early 40s and ride now more than ever as I close in toward 60. Yet according to my Doctor's BMI Charts, I have basically been obese for more than 90% of my life.
As in all things, balance truth and reality against hype and propaganda. And didn't even touch the issues about the environment.
But sometimes things like this can be so misleading and even judgmental.For instance, this is the final slide. It emphatically states bike "will have...," but not if you slip on sand left over from winter and bang up your knees and can't ride for a month (which happened to me last May). Many of us can fill in our own blanks about how cycling negatively impacts health and well being. Of course this is true for any activity.
Or consider this one:
The bottom part of the slide reports that biking as children reduces the chance of being an obese adult by 48%. I guess that it also means that there is a 52% chance of being obese as an adult if you cycled a great deal as a child. This describes me very well. I biked a great deal as a child, a teen, and young adult. Didn't bike much in my 30s. But picked it back up in my early 40s and ride now more than ever as I close in toward 60. Yet according to my Doctor's BMI Charts, I have basically been obese for more than 90% of my life.
As in all things, balance truth and reality against hype and propaganda. And didn't even touch the issues about the environment.
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03-12-14, 11:24 AM
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I'm usually suspect of this kind of stuff too. Even though I think it is well-meant, it smacks of something that puts me off, for some reason.
03-12-14, 11:29 AM
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I biked a huge amount as an adolescent and young man and I am overweight now. I wish I had the time to put in the miles I did then.
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03-12-14, 11:38 AM
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Not quite... It says it reduces the chance of being an obese adult by 48%, not that the chance of being an obese adult is 48% about people who rode bikes as children. If the overall population has 35% odds of being obese as adults, that fraction of the population that rode bikes as kids has a 48% lower chance than that of being obese, or 18%. Using round numbers, biking as a kid cuts the chance that you will be obese as an adult by about half. Them's pretty good odds.
03-12-14, 11:45 AM
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"...lowered their risk of death by 40%"??? I would have thought it was one each, pretty darn close to a certainty in this life at least. I'm being silly, of course, but a sense of perspective is always good.
What I'd like to see is people beginning to understand that the few of them that drive, the lower my risk of death. But of course there is no motivation for them in that statistic.
What I'd like to see is people beginning to understand that the few of them that drive, the lower my risk of death. But of course there is no motivation for them in that statistic.
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03-12-14, 12:14 PM
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Looks like something turned out as newsletter filler by some marketing company.
It is unfortunate that statistics are thrown around with no effort to understand, let alone explain what they mean. "Those who biked lowered their risk of dying by 40%" is idiotic. Your likelihood of dying is 100%. No exceptions.
Nearly all the statistics on those pages are the equivalent of "Final score: Yankees 3".
Citing meaningless statistics ticks me off, especially when I agree with the sentiment.
It is unfortunate that statistics are thrown around with no effort to understand, let alone explain what they mean. "Those who biked lowered their risk of dying by 40%" is idiotic. Your likelihood of dying is 100%. No exceptions.
Nearly all the statistics on those pages are the equivalent of "Final score: Yankees 3".
Citing meaningless statistics ticks me off, especially when I agree with the sentiment.
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03-12-14, 01:50 PM
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I have a bad head cold while in CA. I guess I was a bit surely. 
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03-12-14, 01:56 PM
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People reading this forum are already cyclists, and don't need to be preached to about it.
The smugness and condescension, not to mention the abuse of statistics, behind this campaign are enough to make me want to go buy a gas-guzzler.
If I want preaching in this forum, I'll ask Pastor Bob.
Aside from that, have a nice day!
The smugness and condescension, not to mention the abuse of statistics, behind this campaign are enough to make me want to go buy a gas-guzzler.
If I want preaching in this forum, I'll ask Pastor Bob.
Aside from that, have a nice day!
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Plenty of blobs of cardiac arrests and diabetes waiting to strike here at the most bicyclized economy in the world. You can't change human nature and it's love micky D by just putting those naked apes on bikes. They'll just use those bikes to get to the drive thru.
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Poor gl1000, the Original Poster. It may seem like we are dumping in him. I'm sure it isn't meant to be that way.
Hey gl, welcome to C&V! Bunch of cranky old C&V people, we are, aren't we?
Hey gl, welcome to C&V! Bunch of cranky old C&V people, we are, aren't we?
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Personally, I don't find it preachy. I do think the "Those who biked lowered their risk of dying by 40%" is quite silly.
Pollution is bad. Being overweight is less healthy than not being overweight. Exercise is better than being sedentary. Just is. And judging by the looks of some things out there, not everyone is listening to their preacher.
Pollution is bad. Being overweight is less healthy than not being overweight. Exercise is better than being sedentary. Just is. And judging by the looks of some things out there, not everyone is listening to their preacher.
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I assume part of the 40% lower figure considers Denmark has nicer bike amenities than my local potholed, gravel shouldered, sand covered roads complete with cappuccino slurping soccer moms gabbing on their cell phones.
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From the comments so far, I would say that it has been a long, irksome winter.
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FACT: Everyone who has ever ridden a bike has DIED, or will die, in the next century, or two, maybe three at the most. 100 PERCENT.
FACT: NOBODY has ever died while in bed with Scarlett Johanssen. NObody, not ever. (That we know of.)
LOGICAL CONCLUSION: Riding a bike is 100% FATAL. Spending all your time in bed with Scarlett Johanssen is MUCH safer than riding a bike, and possibly may make you immortal. Or possibly just feel that way.
Quod res ipso requilor factorum lux sit ergo sum glorium non carborumdum. (I think)
FACT: NOBODY has ever died while in bed with Scarlett Johanssen. NObody, not ever. (That we know of.)
LOGICAL CONCLUSION: Riding a bike is 100% FATAL. Spending all your time in bed with Scarlett Johanssen is MUCH safer than riding a bike, and possibly may make you immortal. Or possibly just feel that way.
Quod res ipso requilor factorum lux sit ergo sum glorium non carborumdum. (I think)
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The weather is supposed to be nice this Friday. Will I get ran over by someone texting and driving? Maybe! I don't know what the future will bring. I am older now and retired. I try to plan as if the wife and I will live forever.... and live like we might die tomorrow. I like the healthy lifestyle. I find it has daily rewards. I don't have to wait for some future date to receive the benefits of todays activities.