study from MedExpress<\/a> analyzed eight health metrics across the biggest cities in Canada to create a ranking of what it deems as the fittest cities in the country. Each metric is measured per 100,000 residents.<\/p>\nThe researchers turned to Yelp to look at the number of gyms, yoga studios, and Pilates studios to determine the amount of \u201cexercise access.\u201d<\/p>\n
It also measured \u201chealthy eating access\u201d by looking at the number of health markets and juice and smoothie bars.<\/p>\n
And it determined \u201cfitness engagement\u201d by looking at the total Yelp reviews across those categories, as well as \u201cgym near me\u201d and \u201chealthy restaurants near me\u201d search volume in Google Trends.<\/p>\n
With all of this taken into account, they found that the most fit city in Canada is Burnaby.<\/p>\n
Burnaby has Canada\u2019s best gym access, with 121.2 gyms per 100,000 people. It also has the best yoga studio access, with 101.2 per 100,000 residents. Further, it ranks the highest for healthy food access, with the most health\u00a0markets and juice and smoothie bars per 100,000 residents.<\/p>\n
But it isn\u2019t the only Metro Vancouver or British Columbian city to make the top of the list.<\/p>\n
\u201cBritish Columbia dominates the top of the list,\u201d said MedExpress.<\/p>\n
Four out of five of the top cities are in B.C., with Richmond in second place, Coquitlam in fourth, and Vancouver in fifth.<\/p>\n
MedExpress found that while Vancouver has the strongest gym demand (with over 41,000 gym-related searches per 100,000 residents each year), it has a \u201cclear demand-access gap, as it has only 34 gyms per 100,000 residents \u2014 this is 87 fewer per 100,000 residents than Burnaby.<\/p>\n
Vancouver also ranked the highest for healthy restaurant searches.<\/p>\n
Other B.C. cities on the list are Abbotsford (23), Surrey (25), Kelowna (26), Saanich (27), and Langley (29).<\/p>\n
Previously, Richmond was crowned the most active place in all of B.C.<\/a> by Participation, a national organization focused on promoting physical activity.<\/p>\nThis award looked at communities\u2019 activity levels and how city staff and community partners motivated people to get active in their community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite hosting record-breaking marathons year after year and being a city that values fitness, Vancouver isn\u2019t ranked as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-716030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}