Walking or biking to work and school could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 11%. This is the ambitious forecast by Paul Higgins from the University of California, Berkely. (New Scientist 18/12/2004).
The forecasts are impressive:

walkers would lose 12kg of fat, bikers would lose 26kg
approximately $117 billion would be saved off the bill from treating obesity - […]

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