Theresa Braine | New York Daily News
Chef Gordon Ramsay loves cycling, and as of this weekend he loves his helmet even more.
For Father’s Day the acclaimed food magician exhorted every single cyclist, be they children, “new fathers, old fathers, middle-aged fathers,” to protect their heads.
“This week I had a really bad accident while riding my bike in Connecticut,” he wrote on Instagram, alongside a video. “I’m doing ok and did not break any bones or suffer any major injuries but I am a bit bruised up, looking like a purple potato.”
As he spoke, he lifted his white chef’s coat to reveal a lurid, eggplant-hued hematoma covering almost the entire left side of his torso, followed by snaps of his “before and after” helmet that was smashed up in the accident.
“Honestly, you’ve got to wear a helmet,” Ramsay said. “I don’t care how short the journey is. I don’t care that helmets cost money. Even for kids, you’ve got to wear a helmet.”
Wearing a helmet “reduces the chances of head injury by 48%, serious head injury by 60%, traumatic brain injury by 53%, face injury by 23%” and decreases death or serious injury by 34%, according to a 2015 National Institutes of Health study cited by New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
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