{"id":1260,"date":"2012-03-08T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T00:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2012\/03\/08\/march-ex-vi-breathed-bicycles-on-day-eight\/"},"modified":"2012-03-10T11:45:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T15:45:32","slug":"march-ex-vi-breathed-bicycles-on-day-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1260","title":{"rendered":"March-Ex VI: breathed bicycles on day eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u2022  Walking and bicycling gradually build strength and muscle\u000b tone with little risk of over-exercise or strain. An average\u000b bicyclist burns about 300 calories during a 20-minute ride,\u000b while improving coordination and reducing stress. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022  Non-motorized travel or commuting can easily provide \u000benough exercise to meet the Centers for Disease Control \u000band Prevention\u2019s recommendation that adults engage \u000bin moderate-intensity physical activities for 30 \u000bminutes or more at least five days a week.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022  As an effective type of aerobic exercise, bicycling can result \u000bin noticeably improved health, lowering risk factors for\u000b many medical conditions, including cardio-vascular disease,\u000b obesity, type II diabetes, depression, and memory loss. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022  A major study of 10,000 British civil servants suggested that those who bicycled 20 miles a week were half as likely to suffer heart disease as their non-cycling colleagues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Totally devoted to preparing remarks and visuals for a presentation to the Rotary Club tomorrow. The benefits of non-motorized travel and recreation is something I\u2019ve thought about intensively for at least five years now. Beyond advocacy, my concepts are turning toward the dynamics of a more \u201clivable\u201d community. Not that the greater accommodation of walkers and bicyclists is some sort of panacea, but when you line up all the benefits \u2014 Economic Development, Neighborhood Preservation\u000b\u000b, Tourism Promotion, Environmental Stewardship\u000b\u000b, Health and Well-being, and Overall Quality of Life \u000b\u2014 it sure does look like a hell of a solution to a lot of perplexing issues. Donald Draper said, \u201cMake it simple, but significant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3_8_2012.jpg' alt='3_8_2012.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 125%; margin-top: -5px; margin-bottom: 19px; color: gray;\">\n<em>Desirable Habitats<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Walking and bicycling gradually build strength and muscle\u000b tone with little risk of over-exercise or strain. An average\u000b bicyclist burns about 300 calories during a 20-minute ride,\u000b while improving coordination and reducing stress. \u2022 Non-motorized travel or commuting can easily provide \u000benough exercise to meet the Centers for Disease Control \u000band Prevention\u2019s recommendation that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,43,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}