{"id":1466,"date":"2008-12-07T21:39:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T21:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:42:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:42:50","slug":"afterschool-physical-activity-program-to-reduce-obesity-related-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1466","title":{"rendered":"Afterschool Physical Activity Program to Reduce Obesity-Related Cancer Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a feasibility study from University of Hawaii anthropometric and fitness measures were taken at baseline and 12 weeks later for 68 students in 2 schools. A significant decrease in skinfold thicknesses and increase in distance covered in the 3-minute walk-run test were found. Incorporating daily physical activity into afterschool programs is feasible and effective, but teacher interest is critical, and the nonmandatory nature of this venue may limit children&#8217;s participation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19058071?dopt=Abstract\" target=_blank>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a feasibility study from University of Hawaii anthropometric and fitness measures were taken at baseline and 12 weeks later for 68 students in 2 schools. A significant decrease in skinfold thicknesses and increase in distance covered in the 3-minute walk-run test were found. Incorporating daily physical activity into afterschool programs is feasible and effective, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4985,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/4985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}