Cycling – a prescription for good health? | Cycling UK

We know that cycling’s good for our health, but now a scheme running in West Yorkshire is prescribing cycling as a treatment for a variety of health issues.

The Cycle for Health project, funded by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s CityConnect programme, is now in its third year in West Yorkshire, and has already helped around 300 people.

At the start of the programme, more than two thirds of those who took part admitted they weren’t doing the recommended levels of physical activity a week.

Cycling UK spoke to some of those who’ve taken part.

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