Get Up And Do Something: Car commuters gain more weight

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Car commuters gain more weight Jan 30th 2013, 11:55 People driving to work every day are packing on more pounds than their colleagues on trains, buses and bikes, according to a new study from Australia. "Even if you are efficiently active during leisure time, if you use a car for commuting daily then that has an impact on weight gain," lead author Takemi Sugiyama of the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne told Reuters Health. Among people in the study who got at least two and a half hours of weekly exercise, car commuters gained an average of four pounds over four years - one pound more than people who got to work another way or worked from home.

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