To: Lane3 who wrote (18931 ) 8/24/2010 2:28:44 PM From: dybdahl Read Replies (1) | Respond to It is not about the size of the country, but culture and market segmentation definitely has something to say. However, this is a health thread, so the question is, how do we improve people's health? If they can manage to do all the stuff that they want on a day in 24 hours, then everything is fine. But if you take someone busy and ask them to spend en hour extra per day on something, they might complain... I learned the benefits of the trains the hard way. I once had to take care of the family and work alone for 4 weeks, and I did not want to reduce our activity level or turn to microwave food. I therefore made a careful plan on how to do this, and found out that this was simply not possible, commuting 50km in each direction every day. However, when I replaced the car ride with a train ride, the schedule worked. My experience was, that these 4 weeks were very easy, and I did get more exercise than normal. Afterwards I started to use my car, and quickly noticed the consequences of reduced exercise. Therefore, I now use the train on all the days where possible, and only take the car when I have meetings out of the office that cannot be handled using a taxi.
