{"id":19855,"date":"2017-10-23T15:11:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=19855"},"modified":"2017-10-23T15:11:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:11:58","slug":"how-active-is-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/how-active-is-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"How active is South Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a fitness tracker &#8211; or you know someone who does &#8211; then you know how obsessed a person can become with meeting their step goals every day. Staying active is definitely not a bad thing, but have you ever wondered how many steps everyone else takes?<\/p>\n<p>Do you take more steps than the average person in your country? And do people in other countries take more or less steps than you do?<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/2017\/07\/10\/stanford-researchers-find-intriguing-clues-obesity-counting-steps-via-smartphones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford University<\/a>\u00a0have answered the question of which country takes the most steps (on average by) collecting data on a &#8220;planetary-scale&#8221; to determine just how active people are in different countries.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that each country has its own definition of what is considered moderately active. Japan&#8217;s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare recommends a person walk 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day, while the UK&#8217;s National Obesity Forum says somebody walking 7,000 to 10,000 would be considered to be moderately active.<\/p>\n<p>According to the research, on average people walk 4,961 steps a day, which is far less than the average recommended amount. People in\u00a0China\u00a0are the most active with 6,189 steps a day while the least active are in Indonesia, averaging a mere 3,513.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19866\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/chartoftheday_10357_the_world_s_most_and_least_active_countries_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/chartoftheday_10357_the_world_s_most_and_least_active_countries_n.jpg 960w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/chartoftheday_10357_the_world_s_most_and_least_active_countries_n-300x214.jpg 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/chartoftheday_10357_the_world_s_most_and_least_active_countries_n-768x547.jpg 768w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/chartoftheday_10357_the_world_s_most_and_least_active_countries_n-269x192.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a fitness tracker &#8211; or you know someone who does &#8211; then you know how obsessed a person can become with meeting their step goals every day. Staying active is definitely not a bad thing, but have you ever wondered how many steps everyone else takes? Do you take more steps than<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/how-active-is-south-africa\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2122,365,725,2623,2362],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19855"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19869,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19855\/revisions\/19869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}