Article from 1999, referenced study likely from earlier.
The average American walks less than 75 miles a year - about 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.
Thank you to @urlyman@mastodon.social for pointing this out.
Article from 1999, referenced study likely from earlier.
The average American walks less than 75 miles a year - about 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.
Thank you to @urlyman@mastodon.social for pointing this out.
I can see why you might connect the two, but I weigh 240 lbs and bike commute every day as long as it isn’t freezing. Overweight and obese people ride bikes all the time.
Being sedentary is only part of the reason we’re so fat: Can’t out exercise a bad diet and we are barraged with highly processed foods to the point that you can accidentally eat a lot of processed stuff even when you’re trying to eat healthy.
Oh, also, beer but I quit drinking so that should help lol
Fair on the weight!
Still, I have to say that bike commuting regularly is definitely above average. Maybe you’re not living in the most representative area?
I have family that certainly only walk a few hundred meters a day.
I’d be surprised if I wasn’t: Most things are within about a 25 minute walk for me, much less on a bike. Still though, I feel like that study’s numbers were off.