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Fight Obesity With 10 Miles of Cycle Tracks Per State

April Streeter, 15 July 2010, USA: TreeHugger - Food & Health
Harvard's Anne Lusk is a Department of Nutrition researcher extremely interested in the ways bicycles can help our overweight society. Her most recent publication documents research she and colleagues did using data from the famous Nurses Health Study II and compared biking and fast walking and their surprising role in keeping women slimmer..for just a few minutes of exercise each day. 
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