{"id":42504,"date":"2015-08-12T10:15:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T14:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/?p=42504"},"modified":"2021-11-18T07:26:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:26:39","slug":"news-turkey-fitness-work-081215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/fitness\/news-turkey-fitness-work-081215\/","title":{"rendered":"What One Turkish Province Is Doing to Get People Fit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We all know it can be a serious struggle to make time to exercise every day. Between rushing out the door in the a.m., putting in long hours at work and hurrying home to cook dinner<\/a> at night, squeezing in a cardio session can feel close to impossible. (Hate running? Here are five other options<\/a> you can try.) But what if your boss would let you come in late \u2014 as long as you promised to hit the gym beforehand?<\/p>\n

RELATED: <\/strong>19 Reasons to Work Out (Beyond the Perfect Body)<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening in one Turkish province this year. A new health initiative, called Our Cure is Sport,<\/em> will allow government employees to arrive at work one hour late so that they fit in some exercise, according to a report from Fortune<\/em><\/a> magazine. People participating in the program will also have access to a dietician \u2014\u00a0and get help finding a workout they love.<\/p>\n

The campaign is part of a broader effort to help fight the rise of obesity in Europe. In Turkey, nearly 62 percent of adults are overweight, and about 28 percent are obese. (That may sounds like a lot, but in the U.S. more than a third of adults are considered obese<\/em>, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.) What\u2019s most alarming in Turkey, though, is the obesity rate, which increased by 44 percent between 2002 and 2014, according to the Turkish Statistics Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The usual culprits \u2014\u00a0increased consumption of processed foods<\/a> and a lack of exercise \u2014\u00a0are likely to blame, according to reports<\/a>. (Curious how bad the food you\u2019re eating is, on a scale of 1 to 10? Use this food calculator<\/a> to find out.)<\/p>\n

However, there\u2019s still no word on how employers will know if participants are actually using that extra a.m. hour to sweat, rather than sleep in. But for us, this sounds like a privilege we wouldn\u2019t want to abuse.<\/p>\n

Need inspiration? Check out these 19 ways<\/a> to trick yourself into becoming a morning person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wish you had more time to work out? Find out what one country is doing to help people fit exercise into their lives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":42507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6],"tags":[289,103,251,341,343,100],"class_list":["post-42504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise","category-fitness","tag-exercise","tag-motivation","tag-news","tag-tax1living-well","tag-tax2exercise","tag-workout"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}