{"id":1757,"date":"2008-10-14T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:44:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:44:06","slug":"the-burden-of-childhood-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1757","title":{"rendered":"The Burden of Childhood Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While obesity has escalated in adults, it has gone up much faster in kids. Over the past four decades, US obesity rates have soared among all age groups&#8217;\u201djumping over fourfold, 400 percent&#8217;\u201damong kids ages 6 to 11. Turning the tide against obesity is one of the top things we can do to improve the health and health outcomes of millions of Americans. We are at a critical juncture with this epidemic. If we act now, we can begin to reverse the tide of increasing weight and diminishing health or we can wait until we&#8217;ve lost an entire generation of children. Read more in this new report aming at shaping the public&#8217;s understanding of public health and framing the issue of childhood obesity repeatedly and forcefully.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rwjf.org\/pr\/product.jsp?id=35309&#038;topicid=1099\" target=_blank>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While obesity has escalated in adults, it has gone up much faster in kids. Over the past four decades, US obesity rates have soared among all age groups&#8217;\u201djumping over fourfold, 400 percent&#8217;\u201damong kids ages 6 to 11. Turning the tide against obesity is one of the top things we can do to improve the health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757"}],"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=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5231,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/5231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}