Health

Cycling for Physical Health: Turning Everyday Trips into Exercise

How everyday cycling improves heart, metabolic, and musculoskeletal health—and how simple safety upgrades like lights and car-horn-loud bicycle horns make it easier to ride consistently.

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Beyond Home and Work: Bikes, Third Places, and Social Health Across the Lifespan

How walking, cycling, and people-first streets can cut loneliness and rebuild social health from childhood through older age in car-centric societies.

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The Importance of Covering Your Eyes When Biking

Why cyclists should treat eye protection as essential safety gear, from debris and UV to glare, reaction time, and long-term vision health.

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Cycling for Environmental Health: Air Quality, Noise, and Population-Level Benefits

How shifting everyday trips from cars to bikes cuts air pollution, reduces harmful noise, and delivers outsized population-level health benefits.

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Growing Up on Two Wheels: How Independent Mobility Builds Healthier, Happier Kids and Teens

Evidence from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and beyond shows that kids who walk and cycle independently gain physical, cognitive, and mental health benefits that last into adulthood.

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Staying Upright, Staying Independent: How Everyday Mobility Protects Health in Older Age

From walking speed to bicycle trips to the shops, everyday mobility is one of the strongest predictors of health, independence, and quality of life in older adults.

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