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Moscow’s Benches Will Display Sitter’s Weight: Will You Risk It?

Moscow’s authorities decided to replace ordinary park benches with high-tech scales that will tell the sitter’s weight. Designed to raise fitness consciousness, the benches will replace the ones already existing in the city’s most popular parks and will be sponsored by gyms that are hopping to get new members.
Scale Bench 1 photo
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Inspired from a similar campaign that is already taking place at a public bus stop in the Netherlands, one of the first parks in Moscow to embrace the change is northern Sokolniki Park - director Andrei Lapshin said that 20 weighing benches could be placed there by the end of the year.

According to The Moscow Times, the benches will also give tips on healthy eating as well as advertising nearby fitness clubs and beauty salons. What is even better, the Russian authorities won’t even need to pay anything for the change, as the seats, which will coust around $1,300 a piece, will be funded by investors.

The idea might seem a bit awkward, but according to statistics Russia does face some weigh problems. In fact, obesity has become a problem of over 25% of Russia’s population, according to head of the Nutrition Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences. After an annual examination of 1,500 people across the country, made last year, scientists found that 55% of Russians had problems with excessive weight.

As for Europe, the highest obesity rate was slightly above that, with Hungary weighing in with 28.5% in the East and Britain becoming the fattest nation in the western part of the continent, another study carried out across 27 nations by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) revealed.
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