{"id":3551,"date":"2009-08-12T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:38:11","slug":"food-stamp-use-linked-to-weight-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3551","title":{"rendered":"Food Stamp Use Linked To Weight Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food Stamp Program may help contribute to obesity among its users, according to a new nationwide study that followed participants for 14 years. Researchers found that the average user of food stamps had a Body Mass Index (BMI) 1.15 points higher than non-users. The link between food stamps and higher weight was almost entirely based on women users, who averaged 1.24 points higher BMI than those not in the program, the study found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/160291.php\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more<\/a>. This study was discussed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fooducate.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/12\/do-food-stamps-really-contribute-to-obesity\/\" target=\"_blank\">fooducate.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food Stamp Program may help contribute to obesity among its users, according to a new nationwide study that followed participants for 14 years. Researchers found that the average user of food stamps had a Body Mass Index (BMI) 1.15 points higher than non-users. The link between food stamps and higher weight was almost [&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\/3551"}],"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=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4272,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/4272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}