{"id":1801,"date":"2008-10-04T18:21:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T18:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:44:11","slug":"changing-school-environment-curbs-weight-gain-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"Changing School Environment Curbs Weight Gain In Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small changes in schools lead to big results when it comes to preventing childhood obesity. This school-based intervention reduced the incidence of overweight by 50 percent. The study focused on 1,349 students in grades 4 through 6, and followed them for a two-year period, measuring weight, height and physical activity before and after. Only 7.5 percent of children became overweight in intervention schools, compared with 15 percent of children who became overweight in comparison schools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2008\/04\/080407074554.htm\" target=_blank>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small changes in schools lead to big results when it comes to preventing childhood obesity. This school-based intervention reduced the incidence of overweight by 50 percent. The study focused on 1,349 students in grades 4 through 6, and followed them for a two-year period, measuring weight, height and physical activity before and after. Only 7.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801"}],"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=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5267,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/5267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}