Wired.com: Study Says Cars Make Us Fat and that Europeans walk more than Americans

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Study Says Cars Make Us Fat and that Europeans walk more than Americans

"Countries with the highest levels of active transportation generally had the lowest obesity rates," David Bassett of the University of Tennessee and John Pucher of Rutgers University conclude in the study published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health. "Walking and bicycling are far more common in European countries than in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Active transportation is inversely related to obesity in these countries." Overall, the study found, Europeans walk three times as far and cycle five times as far as Americans. Europeans walk an average of 237 miles each year and bike another 116 while their American counterparts walk 87 miles and bike 24. The extra exercise means Europeans burn five to nine pounds more than Americans do.