{"id":31407,"date":"2019-02-01T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31407"},"modified":"2019-02-01T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:23:00","slug":"south-africas-boxing-grannies-juke-and-jab-their-way-to-healthier-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31407","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s &#8216;boxing grannies&#8217; juke and jab their way to healthier lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The women range in age from the mid-60s to the early 80s. They love to dance and sing. And twice a week, they come to a gym in Cosmo City, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, to box. They are affectionately known as South Africa&#8217;s &#8220;boxing grannies,&#8221; and these women are juking and jabbing their way to healthier lives.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;My life was on and off, you know &#8212; sometimes good, sometimes bad,&#8221; said 80-year-old Constance Ngubane, who&#8217;s been coming in to box since the Boxing Gogos (another name for &#8220;grandmother&#8221; in South Africa) program began in 2014. &#8220;But since I started boxing &#8230; I feel young, like I&#8217;m 16. But I&#8217;m not 16; I&#8217;m 80!&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">For these women, boxing is as much a social activity as it is a physical one, and it is that combination that can boost the benefits of exercise. A study from the Mayo Clinic found that physical activities with more social interaction were associated with a longer lifespan.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The women range in age from the mid-60s to the early 80s. They love to dance and sing. And twice a week, they come to a gym in Cosmo City, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, to box. They are affectionately known as South Africa&#8217;s &#8220;boxing grannies,&#8221; and these women are juking and jabbing their way&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}