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The Case for Not Wearing a Bike Helmet
Helmets have been mandatory in the pro peloton for well over a decade. Where’s the data that it’s helping?
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Bicycle Network campaigns for helmet law reform
Australia's Bicycle Network has come out in favour of reforming Australia's mandatory bicycle helmet law.
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Cycling Tips: Commentary
Commentary: Why I stopped wearing a bike helmet
by Peter Flax
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Bicycling Magazine
It’s Okay If You Don’t Wear a Bike Helmet
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Carlton Reid, transport writer
I Do Not Wear A Bicycle Helmet
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More on Why We Shouldn't Have Mandatory Helmet Laws
Over on VOX, Joseph Stromberg rounds up the studies about bike helmets and concludes that if you want to get more people to ride bikes, then you shoul
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Give Kids Bikes, Not Helmets
Why helmet giveaways are an act of surrender
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Enough with the Smashed Watermelons! Helmet Mania Is Scaring Kids Away from Biking
Free Range Kids
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Obesity has overtaken smoking as the leading cause of premature death and illness in Australia, according to the lead article in the West Australian newspaper on 9th April 2010. Fat is rapidly becoming the biggest public health challenge that Australia has to face.
More than 60% of Australian adults and a quarter of children are overweight of obese. The contribution of excessive weight to ill health has more than doubled in 6 years.
"The obesity crisis is not on its way, it's already here", according to Professor Mike Daube, president of the Public Health Association of Australia.
Insufficient exercise is a principal cause of obesity. Cycling used to be a common form of regular exercise for many people but helmet laws in Australia have discouraged the healthy activity.
Fri 9 Apr 2010