The staggering health improvements from bike commuting

Welcome Shifter Big Stories, sponsored by Riese & Müller.

This is the first in a series of videos to delve into bigger, deeper and more important issues around urban cycling and bike commuting.

To kick off this series, I wanted to start with something that has an impact on everybody: Health and wellness. And everybody knows that riding a bike is good for you. But when I started looking more deeply at the positive health outcomes of transportation cycling, I didn't believe the numbers. And it's not just physical health. Riding a bike is good for your mental health and even your social connections as well.

A big thanks to Riese & Müller for sponsoring this year's Big Stories. In this video, I was riding the Riese & Müller Packster 70 — it's so fun and smooth to ride, and it hauls huge loads easily: https://www.r-m.de/en-pt/bikes/packster-70/

Thanks to Bishops Family Cycles in Victoria, B.C.: https://www.familycycles.ca/

Thanks to Cloud eBikes in Vancouver, B.C.: https://cloudebikes.ca/

Thanks to Patty Wiens for sharing her insight.
She's on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCb0KxXy66Gp_3j1Ru-F3LLA
She's also the new Bicycle Mayor of Winnipeg: https://www.pattybikes.com/

Thanks to Cailynn Klingbeil for her research and writing support. She has a great newsletter about getting outdoors: https://gooutside.substack.com/

Thanks to Josh Sandulak for his videography and editing: https://www.joshsandulak.com/

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0:00 Introduction
2:47 Impact on physical health
6:05 Impact on mental health
8:48 Impact on social health

#cycling #bike #commuting

Sources:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight
https://www.who.int/news/item/04-03-2022-world-obesity-day-2022-accelerating-action-to-stop-obesity
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/physical-activity
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/mental-disorders
https://www.who.int/news/item/02-03-2022-covid-19-pandemic-triggers-25-increase-in-prevalence-of-anxiety-and-depression-worldwide
https://www.who.int/multi-media/details/loneliness-and-social-isolation-are-health-risks
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/physical-activity
https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1456
https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12966-014-0132-x
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(20)30079-6/fulltext
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6388745/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10847255/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21291246/
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/6/e013542
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743514003144?via%3Dihub
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2019/07/25/why-cyclists-are-the-happiest-commuters.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3710158/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494423001731
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-on-books/author-talks-the-worlds-longest-study-of-adult-development-finds-the-key-to-happy-living
Cycling for Sustainable Cities, edited by Ralph Buehler and John Pucher
How Cycling Can Save the World by Peter Walker

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