One in three people track health or fitness
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Global marketing research firm GfK quizzed 4,900 people in 16 countries, but users in the UK rank well below average.
By Elliot Mulley-Goodbarne
One in three people monitor or track their health and fitness via an online or mobile app, or via a fitness band, clip or smartwatch.
This is according to a survey by global market research firm GfK, which quizzed 4,900 Internet users in 16 countries who currently track their health or fitness.
China leads the way with 45 per cent of the online population monitoring health and fitness in this way, followed by Brazil and the US (29 per cent), Germany (28 per cent) and France (26 per cent).
In the UK, almost a fifth (19 per cent) said that they track their well being using an online service while 16 per cent have previously used online services but do not any more.
The survey also found that 21 per cent of the men and 18 per cent of the women who took the survey in the UK used online apps or gadgets to track their fitness. Those statistics ar...
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