The 2015 Walkable Bikeable Delaware Summit will be held this year on May 7 in Dover. ***REGISTRATION IS CLOSED*** To add your name to the waiting list, please email wbd [at] bikede.org with your name, city and zip code. The 2015 summit will be hosted by the American Heart Association, the Delaware Department of Transportation, the…
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With our much-appreciated coalition partners, Bike Delaware will announce the 2014 Walkable Bikeable Delaware Summit within a few weeks. Keep an eye out for our announcement! You are not going to believe the program for this year’s summit. To see the program for the 2013 Walkable Bikeable Delaware Summit, click HERE.
This two minute video is remarkable: RELATED: • Cycling for Freezing of Gait (New England Journal of Medicine)
by Rita Landgraf and Dr. Sandra Hassink News Journal June 19, 2013 ….Good health care doesn’t start in the clinic. It begins in the way we use our land and design transportation systems and vital community infrastructure such as schools, clinics, stores, churches, parks, trails, sidewalks and bikeways. Read entire article in News Journal HERE>>>…
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By NICHOLAS BAKALAR New York Times April 8, 2013 Rick Bowmer/Associated Press Exposure in the first two months of pregnancy to air pollution from traffic sharply increases the risk for birth defects, a new study has found. Researchers used data from two large studies carried out in eight counties in the San Joaquin Valley in…
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Several studies have shown that kids who travel to school via active transportation perform better on tests, solving puzzles and missed fewer days due to sickness. Go figure. I’m not sure about you; but I’m really enjoying the positive press from our local newspaper. Follow this through to the News Journal article for the full story.
By Sanne Fettinger January 25, 2013 The Davis Enterprise If you drive your child to school, you decrease your child’s ability to learn the rest of the school day. On the flip side, when children walk or bike to school, instead of being driven in a car, they concentrate much better and the effects last…
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“Can one desire too much of a good thing?” – William Shakespeare With Shakespeare’s question in mind, and as a service to Bike Delaware’s readers, we offer the following caution on bicycling as exercise from Grant Petersen’s “Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike“. By Grant Petersen The title of this book means…
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For the next 6 days (until December 9), you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. Despite our growing medical knowledge, despite ever more sophisticated drugs and medical devices, despite a nationwide drop in mortality from lung cancer, despite a drop in the murder rate and deaths from traffic accidents…
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By Dr. Karryl Rattay June 19, 2012 Published in News Journal There is a national epidemic of chronic disease. In the United States today, seven of 10 deaths and the vast majority of serious illness, disability and health care costs are caused by chronic diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, stroke and cardiovascular disease. And more…
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