{"id":1675,"date":"2008-10-28T05:03:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T05:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:43:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:43:57","slug":"neighborhood-greenness-has-long-term-positive-impact-on-kids-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1675","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhood greenness has long term positive impact on kids&#8217; health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first study to look at the effect of neighborhood greenness on inner city children&#8217;s weight over time, researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and University of Washington report that higher neighborhood greenness is associated with slower increases in children&#8217;s body mass over a two year period, regardless of residential density. This study of over 3,800 inner city children revealed that living in areas with green space has a long term positive impact on children&#8217;s weight and thus health. The study appears in the December issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2008-10\/iu-ngh102708.php\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first study to look at the effect of neighborhood greenness on inner city children&#8217;s weight over time, researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and University of Washington report that higher neighborhood greenness is associated with slower increases in children&#8217;s body mass over a two year period, regardless of residential density. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675"}],"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=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5162,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}