{"id":817,"date":"2009-05-05T21:14:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T21:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=817"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:38:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:38:34","slug":"extra-support-helps-obese-women-cycle-to-and-from-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Extra support helps obese women cycle to and from work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish study lasted 18 months. It involved 120 obese and unfit women between the ages of 30 and 60 with a waist circumference of at least 88 centimetres. The subjects were randomly assigned to two groups, a control group that focused on walking and an intervention group that focused on cycling. The results show that a larger proportion of the women in the intervention group (39%) cycled two kilometres or more per day than the women in the control group (9%). And a positive side-effect was that car-driving dropped by 34 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ki.se\/ki\/jsp\/polopoly.jsp?l=en&amp;d=130&amp;a=76764&amp;newsdep=130\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish study lasted 18 months. It involved 120 obese and unfit women between the ages of 30 and 60 with a waist circumference of at least 88 centimetres. The subjects were randomly assigned to two groups, a control group that focused on walking and an intervention group that focused on cycling. The results show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4394,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/4394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}