Not really cycling related but cycling could help

[Ross]

Working in the office is as bad as smoking, study finds

Office workers must exercise for an hour a day to combat the "deadly" risk of modern working life, a major study has found.

Sitting for at least eight hours a day could increase the risk of premature death by up to 60 per cent, the study of more than one million adults published in The Lancet found, with sedentary lifestyles now posing as great a threat to public health as smoking and causing more deaths than obesity.

Prof Ulf Ekelund, the lead scientist, from Cambridge University and the Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, said: "We found that at least one hour of physical activity per day, for example brisk walking or cycling , eliminates the association between sitting time and death."

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/busines ... qfcjz.html

[Gerry.M]

Part of the reason I try to commute as often as I can. I like the work I do but I know it's not good sitting in front of a computer for 8hrs.
Thankfully the 2.5hrs of cycling each day seems to balance it out.

[g-boaf]

It's hard to get people to do that though. Where I am, there are a few who ride (one who is in Division 1), and a few others who run, and one other who won a gold medal at the Olympics back in 2000 who is still quite fit.

Other than that, not many others.

[find_bruce]

A sedentary job is the main reason I got back into commuting - it is an hour's exercise I wouldn't get otherwise. Of course it helps that I have end of trip facilities.

[g-boaf]

A sedentary job is the main reason I got back into commuting - it is an hour's exercise I wouldn't get otherwise. Of course it helps that I have end of trip facilities.

We have okay facilities here too, but it means that other than me and our other resident racer and a few commuters, that's it. I can only put that down to lack of connected cycling infrastructure, and that the roads scare new riders.