{"id":1562,"date":"2008-11-16T21:33:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T21:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:42:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:42:59","slug":"physical-activity-and-healthy-eating-in-the-after-school-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1562","title":{"rendered":"Physical activity and healthy eating in the after-school environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>144 children at 7 elementry schools in California were followed. There was significantly more discouragement of physical activity during organized adult-led sessions (29%) as compared to the free play sessions (6%). The quality of after-school programs can be improved by providing fruits and vegetables as snacks; offering more free play activities; training the after-school staff in simple, structured games for use in a variety of indoor and outdoor settings; and training after-school moderate and vigorous physical activity and healthful eating in and out of the after-school setting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19000239?dopt=Abstract\" target=_blank>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>144 children at 7 elementry schools in California were followed. There was significantly more discouragement of physical activity during organized adult-led sessions (29%) as compared to the free play sessions (6%). The quality of after-school programs can be improved by providing fruits and vegetables as snacks; offering more free play activities; training the after-school staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562"}],"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=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5058,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}