Doctors to prescribe bike rides to tackle UK obesity crisis

Boris Johnson to announce new measures to make cycling safer and cheaper to improve health and cut virus risk

GPs will be encouraged to prescribe cycling as a way for patients to lose weight, as part of a new government strategy to tackle the nation’s obesity crisis to be announced on Monday.

In what Downing Street says is its biggest initiative to encourage more people to take exercise, the plans to be revealed by prime minister Boris Johnson could also mean GP surgeries participating in bicycle schemes, to make cycling easier and cheaper to take up.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3eXDWk1

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