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January 27, 2010, last updated April 20, 2013
By DeDe Howard, Contributing Columnist
A new study has revealed one of the reasons Europeans
are thinner than we are--they walk more. Researchers from
the University of Tennessee and Rutgers University found
that, on average Europeans walk 237 miles (382
kilometers) a year. Americans, in contrast walk only 87
miles (140 kilometers) a year. Europeans also bike more,
and average of 116 miles a year compared to just 24 for
Americans.
The researchers examined data from 2000 from various
European countries including the Netherlands (Holland),
Sweden, Latvia and Switzerland as well as data from
Australia and the U.S. The researchers then compared this
data showing the degree of so-called "active transport"
with rates of obesity.
No surprise here. The U.S. led the charts for rates of
obesity at 23.9%. Sweden had the lowest rates of obesity
at 8% almost tying the Netherlands at 8.1%. I can tell you
from my trips to the Netherlands that the Dutch really do
bike --everywhere. They bike to business meetings, they
bike to the grocery store. The Dutch seem to love their
bicycles more than any other people on Earth. But
Amsterdam, the Dutch capital city, lends itself more to bike
riding than our freeways. Amsterdam is a compact city with
very few little car traffic. Canals wind their way through the
main sections of the town. Bike lanes are the norm. Cars,
and indeed pedestrians, are cautioned to give way to bikes.
Or else. One tour guide even told me that if you have a
collision with a biker, you are presumed by law to be in the
wrong. In other words, their world is built around the
supremacy of the bicycle and the rights of bicyclers.
Obesity Rates for Selected Countries (Chart Below)
Not so is our world in the U.S. I don't have to tell you that
bike lanes are not the norm. And car drivers certainly do
not give way to bikers. In the U.S., our world is built
around the supremacy of cars. And the rights of car
drivers. Too late to change that, I suppose.
Getting back to the study, I have a problem with its
conclusions. It's easy enough to point out that Europeans
walk more. I am a big believer that the more active
European lifestyle. But when you look at the study's
conclusions, you see that the difference in the daily calorie
expenditures because of the walking and cycling is really
not that much. Europeans burn an average of 83 calories
from walking while Americans burn 40 calories a day
walking. Not much of a difference.
So what's the whole story? What's the real reason
Europeans weigh so much less than we Americans?
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