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Originally Posted by oboeguy
I'd love to see that Time article, Dr. P. Give a holler if you find it!
Ahh... I did. Interesting read. In many ways it would seem to support what many of us believe about cycling, i.e. that it's overall a pretty safe activity, and that the health benefits far outweigh the true risks. But because our psyche focuses on immediate things (getting run down by a motorist) we sort of ignore the comparatively tiny probability of that versus dying a long, protracted, painful death from, say, the complications of type 2 diabetes if you don't exercise.

Anyway, here it is--draw your own conclusions....
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...2978-1,00.html
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