Active commuting is important in raising exercise levels

Less than a third of men and women in the Europe Union take enough healthy exercise, a research article says. The Netherlands, where 44% of people take sufficient exercise, tops the league, but Sweden comes bottom of the 15 countries surveyed, with only 23% taking what the authors considered an adequate amount (Journal of Public Health 2006, doi: 10.1007/s10389-006-0031-y).

The authors defined sufficient total activity as 30 minutes of exercise on five days a …