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Five Benefits of Cycle Commuting

Warren McLaren, 14 July 2010, Australia: TreeHugger - Cars & Transportation (bikes)
Cycle commuting is apparently safer than not cycling to work. A Danish study assessing the health status of 30,000 people over a 14 year period found that, with all other factors being equal, simply cycling to work lowered the risk of death by 40%.
Studies have indicated that cyclists have at least 15% lower absenteeism than non-cyclist workers, with the higher the frequency and longer the distance cycled, the lower the rate of absenteeism.
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