Coverage based on the cultural war of cycling can harm the stereotypes of middle -aged men in Lieger’s health because it converts the focus away from people and societies who benefit from physical activity, Chris White He said.
He speaks a day before the launch of the 10 -year health plan in NHS, Which is expected to focus heavily on preventionEngland’s chief medical officials called on people to allocate media cliché aside and instead focus on “data that no one can ignore.”
If active travel is seen as “something that is simply a middle -aged reserve, people who wear Lycra may be very fast around the garden, and this completely lacks a point in reality as the health gains are huge.”
He said: “There are some areas in which you can send a discussion from a cultural war to one more than one day to one day by actually saying,” Well, guys, but this is mathematics, “and ensuring that you do so with the facts that people find a surprise.
“For example, you will always try to draw the person who supports active transport, and let us say cycling, as a middle class, entitled, speed like a bad person. What they do not see is a woman on a wheelchair that benefits more than the activity we are talking about.”
White said, being more active, was “one of the most impressive things that you can do to maintain the health of all shapes, physical and mental.” He added that the best way for people to do this is to build it in their daily lives, for example by walking, cycling or wheels for transportation.
“People who benefit more than any form of activity are the people who do nothing,” said Weat. The next group that benefits more is the people who do a very small amount, and who may do a little more.
“The second group of people who benefit more than those who swing on the description of health disorder, or in a healthy condition that they can accelerate under it. For many of these people, there will be little activity a very hard work, but it will be significantly strong in prevention and in many cases, the opposite of the health conditions they have.”
White said that the transport planners should not focus only on larger projects such as bicycle corridors, but also on daily issues such as uneven sidewalks, which may postpone a person who has problems moving from walking for a short distance.
He said: “What we have to do is to build more people among places: from their homes to their stores, to the place of their worship, to school, etc. We have to think about it really dangerously.”
In a sign that the policy began to move from War -filling cultural transmission letter During the Rishi Sonak government, 12 regional municipal heads in England, including governors and one of the UK reform, I subscribed To a plan to create a “national active travel network”.
Speaking to White, Young Transport Minister Simon Lightwood said that the work government has followed a different approach to Sonak: “The days have come, I hope, from this poisonous speech about the war on the motor driver.”
