Topic: Mass Transit Encourages Exercise and Weight Loss

[sam]

City planners and citizens alike frequently push for better public transportation. They argue that it can lessen traffic and reduce emissions from cars. Now there’s a new reason to be gung-ho about public transit—it helps make people skinnier. That’s according to a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. [John MacDonald et al., http://bit.ly/bdR7so]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=mass-transit-encourages-exercise-an-10-07-09

[Simon]

Surely the best way is just to walk!

[sam]

or walk to the station... or run as what I do when its -30C.

[Simon]

R... R... Run??! 

[Clive]