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Cars don’t cause an obesity epidemic.

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Cars don’t cause an obesity epidemic. You’d have to be driving for 6 hours or more daily for it to make a significant impact :

By substituting sitting with standing for 6 hours/day, a 65 kg person will expend an additional 54 kcal/day. Assuming no increase in energy intake, this difference in energy expenditure would be translated into the energy content of about 2.5 kg of body fat mass in 1 year.

Source : pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29385357/

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Cars don’t cause an obesity epidemic.