How much would our health benefit from leaving the car at home?
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 11:00
in Health & Medicine
Walking to get around is considered a moderate physical activity and meets WHO exercise recommendations. A new study confirms that doing short journeys on foot rather than taking the car or motorbike would avoid the death of 108 men and 79 women a year in Catalonia alone. This would imply annual savings of more than 200 million euros.