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Cycle to work reduces cancers and cardiovascular diseases, says British research

Owning bicycles is considered to be a calling of the lower income earners in Kenya. But in the past two or three decades, the wealthiest of the society earned a lucrative status in them. As a matter of trying to recollect with nostalgia, teachers comprised the biggest chunk of the buyers and riders of bicycles that have since been rendered obsolete by the motorcycles.

As the love for the bikes gets shrunken each day, a 2017 health study revealed by the British Medical Journal may convince many people especially commuters to think twice.

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