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Exercise combined with no driving stressors and being outside.

Exercise is good for you and being able to afford to live somewhere biking to work is a viable means of transportation.

The nuance is that exercise that's baked into people's everyday routines gets done, and so extends healthy life. Exercise that requires extra time and effort gets done a lot less. This is why everyday physical activity through moving around is so important

YOU wont BELIEVE this ONE WEIRD TRICK that cardiologists HATE!

When I work from home, I bike with my dog for 20-30 minutes in the morning. On office days, I only bike 5 minutes to the train station…

I used to have a wonderful 11km bike commute along the river, my favorite of all time.

You can still use the bike for shopping and the like. It's still good to get out on WFH days.

Go get breakfast then come back and start working? I did that when I was remote and it wasn't a 1:1 replacement for a good ride but it was still pretty good.

Apparently bike commuters still come out ahead, judging by the wording.

Excuses, bring AR while cycling. /s

Think of it as a conditional probability time stream on an actuary table:

• Every day that you don't get killed by a Ford f-450, your lifespan increases by a few minutes

• This is like putting pennies into the penny jar

• Eventually the penny jar gets full and then you are killed by a Ford f-450, thus spilling all of the contents (and your contents), onto the road.

• Thus, the energetic principle of conservation of entropy is preserved, with positive entropy.

What happens when you get ran over by a Toyota instead?

You clearly just need a more heavily armoured bike. You should start running down the fords!

A lot of the costs can even out a bit more if you can manage to live car free. No car payments, insurance, repairs or gas is all extra money that can go to a decent bicycle and a higher cost for rent/mortgage. You can also advocate for biking improvements in your local area.

Plus. Let’s say I have a chronic disease or am generally in weak health. I’m going to have a lower life expectancy, and I’m not going to be able to bike to work.

Correlation ≠ Causation

sounds like confirmation to me, an apt popular science headline. maybe you think “confirms” means “proves”?

thing is, car drivers aren't really safer from bad drivers killing them

This statistic tells us that the health benefits of cycling outweigh the increased chance of an accident.

If I biked to work it would take less than three seconds and leave tyre marks on my carpet.

If I biked to work I’d be hit by three rednecks in giant trucks. And it would also take me 3-4 hours.

I figure that would vary wildly depending on how the individual lives.

No insurance, minimal maintance, low acquisition cost, no fuel cost, no registration, no gridlock, gets you outdoor time and exercise time while also commuting.

Looks like a pretty low cost to me.

Like $500 for the bike and $200/year in maintenance costs?

Not clear on that, but even if you had a poor diet and exercised regularly, you'd still be better off than if you had a poor diet and were totally sedentary.