{"id":169504,"date":"2010-01-12T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2010-01-12T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T13:00:20","slug":"are-americans-destined-to-be-obese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/169504","title":{"rendered":"Are Americans destined to be obese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2313\" title=\"Can't button pants\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/stockphotopro_4644021BYX_no_title-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Can't button pants\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>A new study co-authored by Children&#8217;s obesity expert <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/children.photobooks.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/children.photobooks.com\/directory\/profile.asp?dbase=main&amp;setsize=5&amp;last=Ludwig&amp;pict_id=9901690\">David Ludwig, MD, PhD<\/a>, says that the majority of obese Americans will not lose a significant amount of weight unless there are serious societal changes concerning food. The\u00a0article, published in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jama.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/303\/1\/65?home\"><em>JAMA<\/em><\/a>, takes a look at the science involved in caloric intake versus physical activity and suggests that fundamental changes in America&#8217;s food supply and social infrastructure must take place in order to successfully take on the obesity epidemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more of what Ludwig has to say on <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/out-with-trans-fat\/\">trans-fats<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/taxing-soda-by-the-ounce\/\">taxing soda<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/despite-promises-junk-food-still-advertised-to-kids\/\"> junk food advertisements for kids<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"mailto:?subject=Are%20Americans%20destined%20to%20be%20obese%3F&amp;body=http%3A%2F%2Fchildrenshospitalblog.org%2Fare-americans-destined-to-be-obese%2F\" title=\"email\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/email_link.png\" title=\"email\" alt=\"email\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fchildrenshospitalblog.org%2Fare-americans-destined-to-be-obese%2F&amp;t=Are%20Americans%20destined%20to%20be%20obese%3F\" title=\"Facebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/facebook.png\" title=\"Facebook\" alt=\"Facebook\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Are%20Americans%20destined%20to%20be%20obese%3F%20-%20http%3A%2F%2Fchildrenshospitalblog.org%2Fare-americans-destined-to-be-obese%2F\" title=\"Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/twitter.png\" title=\"Twitter\" alt=\"Twitter\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fchildrenshospitalblog.org%2Fare-americans-destined-to-be-obese%2F&amp;title=Are%20Americans%20destined%20to%20be%20obese%3F&amp;bodytext=A%20new%20study%20co-authored%20by%20Children%27s%20obesity%20expert%20David%20Ludwig%2C%20MD%2C%20PhD%2C%20says%20that%20the%20majority%20of%20obese%20Americans%20will%20not%20lose%20a%20significant%20amount%20of%20weight%20unless%20there%20are%20serious%20societal%20changes%20concerning%20food.%20The%C2%A0article%2C%20published%20in%C2%A0\" title=\"Digg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/digg.png\" title=\"Digg\" alt=\"Digg\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fchildrenshospitalblog.org%2Fare-americans-destined-to-be-obese%2F&amp;title=Are%20Americans%20destined%20to%20be%20obese%3F&amp;notes=A%20new%20study%20co-authored%20by%20Children%27s%20obesity%20expert%20David%20Ludwig%2C%20MD%2C%20PhD%2C%20says%20that%20the%20majority%20of%20obese%20Americans%20will%20not%20lose%20a%20significant%20amount%20of%20weight%20unless%20there%20are%20serious%20societal%20changes%20concerning%20food.%20The%C2%A0article%2C%20published%20in%C2%A0\" title=\"del.icio.us\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/delicious.png\" title=\"del.icio.us\" alt=\"del.icio.us\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/childrenshospitalblog\/~4\/bGz3g6f1WiY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study co-authored by Children&#8217;s obesity expert David Ludwig, MD, PhD, says that the majority of obese Americans will not lose a significant amount of weight unless there are serious societal changes concerning food. The\u00a0article, published in\u00a0JAMA, takes a look at the science involved in caloric intake versus physical activity and suggests that fundamental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}