{"id":80751,"date":"2017-05-01T11:37:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T06:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=80751"},"modified":"2017-05-01T11:40:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T06:10:15","slug":"have-more-friends-for-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/have-more-friends-for-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"Have more friends for fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Have a large number of friends to improve your health and fitness. If you have more friends you will have more physical activity, which results in fitness to a larger extent. New US research suggests that having a large network of friend can be a good influence on your fitness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Led by Greg Ver Steeg department of Computer Science, Ver Steeg started his research after a 2007 study suggested that obesity might be contagious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wondering if positive health traits such as fitness could also be contagious, Ver Steeg partnered up with Google and Evidation Health, a company that aims to quantify health outcomes using digital technology, to explore the issue further.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-80754 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/images.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"752\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Together the research team analysed more than 44,000 Fitbit users, finding that people with larger and more active social circles have higher levels of physical activity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of the study the team also looked at the relationship between social networks and physical activity for those with chronic conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here they found that the increase in activity among those with larger social networks was even more significant for users with chronic diseases, specifically depression and diabetes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Participants with these conditions walked an 36 additional steps for each new social link, compared with 6.5 steps for users overall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhen you\u2019re burdened by a chronic condition, your social network may have an especially high influence on your behavior,\u201d said Luca Foschini, co-founder and chief data scientist at Evidation. Users with chronic diseases might have more overlap between online and offline friend groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a large number of friends to improve your health and fitness. If you have more friends you will have more physical activity, which results in fitness to a larger extent. New US research suggests that having a large network of friend can be a good influence on your fitness. Led by Greg Ver Steeg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29598,29597,2],"tags":[13550,13549,41624,165],"class_list":["post-80751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-special-stories","category-top-stories","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-have-more-friends-for-fitness","tag-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/fitness.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}