High air pollution could diminish exercise benefits by half – study
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#2It sounds terrible . What will happend in the future?! The research doesn't differentiate between seasons , and every one knows how polluted the air is in the winter when everyone is heating their home and apartament.
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Re: High air pollution could diminish exercise benefits by half – study
#4It sounds terrible . What will happend in the future?! The research doesn't differentiate between seasons , and every one knows how polluted the air is in the winter when everyone is heating their home and apartament.
One more reason to look to an electrically heated future. Where I live the air becomes unpleasant in winter as some neighbours heat their homes by burning what i can only assume are old tires and horse carcasses.
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#5I look at the PM2.5 data for my city every day, and at this point (Nov) in the winter season, the only acceptable time to exercise is between 2PM-4PM after vertical mixing kicked in. Outside that duration, particulates are elevated after morning rush our, after evening rush hour, or during overnight inversion trapping evening rush hour + wood burning smoke until the next morning rush hour.
This is one the main reasons why I would prefer working remote, it is hard to utilize this time well (for exercise) if you are in the office.
At least with PM you can wear a mask, although I am still searching for the best one that works during intense exercise.
Also wanted to point out "Trump EPA moves to abandon rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution"
https://apnews.com/article/epa-soot-air-pollution-trump-zeld...
Re: High air pollution could diminish exercise benefits by half – study
#6It sounds terrible . What will happend in the future?! The research doesn't differentiate between seasons , and every one knows how polluted the air is in the winter when everyone is heating their home and apartament.
In the future electric cars and heat pumps will improve the situation.
Re: High air pollution could diminish exercise benefits by half – study
#7I look at the PM2.5 data for my city every day, and at this point (Nov) in the winter season, the only acceptable time to exercise is between 2PM-4PM after vertical mixing kicked in. Outside that duration, particulates are elevated after morning rush our, after evening rush hour, or during overnight inversion trapping evening rush hour + wood burning smoke until the next morning rush hour. This is one the main reason…
> I am still searching for the best one that works during intense exercis
Try a professional mask, like 3M 7500 with 2138 filters.
Re: High air pollution could diminish exercise benefits by half – study
#8It sounds terrible . What will happend in the future?! The research doesn't differentiate between seasons , and every one knows how polluted the air is in the winter when everyone is heating their home and apartament.
In the future electric cars and heat pumps will improve the situation.
And how the electricity will be made? Without any CO2 for sure! (or not... yet)
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#10If only you could see it. In the big cities the air quality has improved, however, I am not sure if it really has, or if we are now just burning hydrocarbons more efficiently so that the particle sizes have become invisible.
Put it this way, although cars are allegedly better than they were, fuel consumption hasn't dropped considerably. The cars are more numerous than ever, and, although there are EVs, there are still more ICE cars than there were in the good old days when petrol came with lead in it.
I am not sure that most people in urban areas even know what good air tastes and smells like. I take a canal path through lush countryside, far from any cars for most of the way. This canal has an aqueduct (or is it a viaduct?) over a motorway and the contrast is incredible. You go from basically smelling flowers to air pollution and back to clean air again quite quickly, so the filth is totally noticeable. Note the cars on the motorway are going at speed, so they should be working efficiently (until a few decades ago 56 mph was what engines were optimised for regarding efficiency in the UK).
If just living in a major city then you don't get this instant switch from bad to good air. So you just don't notice it. If you could see the filth, you would prefer a swimming pool that was pissed in, it is that toxic.
If you do have to live in a city, my top tip is to find out if there are any meteorologists in town. If there are, buy a house next to where they are living. Anecdotal, however, I used to work with meteorologists and they would always live to the West of the city centre, to get cleaner air than those living in the east of the city, or further downwind.
Again anecdotal, however, due to the canal and motorway experience described above, in post-industrial countries such as the UK, it is definitely the vehicles rather than any other source. Given the choice of microparticles that just get in your blood or clumps of big particles that you can eventually cough up and spit out, I would much prefer the latter. My hunch is that the legislation to improve vehicle emissions has optimised the exhaust for nanoparticles. Please prove me wrong!