{"id":383375,"date":"2010-03-03T08:01:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T13:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2010-03-03T08:01:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T13:01:38","slug":"do-small-changes-in-our-diet-really-add-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/383375","title":{"rendered":"Do small changes in our diet really add up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re constantly told that if we eat less and exercise more, the pounds will come sliding off. Not true.\u00a0<em><\/em>According to a recent study, small caloric changes have almost no long-term effect on weight<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While this news is disappointing, Children&#8217;s obesity expert &#8211; David Ludwig, MD, PhD, tell <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/01\/in-obesity-epidemic-whats-one-cookie\/\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> that there is hope, especially for children. Small changes made during childhood lead to a much healthier adult lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more of Ludwig has to say on topic of <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/category\/childhood-obesity\/\">childhood obesity<\/a> here on Thrive.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"mailto:?subject=Do%20small%20changes%20in%20our%20diet%20really%20add%20up%3F&amp;body=http%3A%2F%2Fchildrenshospitalblog.org%2Fdo-small-changes-in-our-diet-really-add-up%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%2Fdo-small-changes-in-our-diet-really-add-up%2F&amp;t=Do%20small%20changes%20in%20our%20diet%20really%20add%20up%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=Do%20small%20changes%20in%20our%20diet%20really%20add%20up%3F%20-%20http%3A%2F%2Fchildrenshospitalblog.org%2Fdo-small-changes-in-our-diet-really-add-up%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%2Fdo-small-changes-in-our-diet-really-add-up%2F&amp;title=Do%20small%20changes%20in%20our%20diet%20really%20add%20up%3F&amp;bodytext=We%27re%20constantly%20told%20that%20if%20we%20eat%20less%20and%20exercise%20more%2C%20the%20pounds%20will%20come%20sliding%20off.%20Not%20true.%C2%A0According%20to%20a%20recent%20study%2C%20small%20caloric%20changes%20have%20almost%20no%20long-term%20effect%20on%20weight.%0D%0A%0D%0AWhile%20this%20news%20is%20disappointing%2C%20Children%27s%20ob\" 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%2Fdo-small-changes-in-our-diet-really-add-up%2F&amp;title=Do%20small%20changes%20in%20our%20diet%20really%20add%20up%3F&amp;notes=We%27re%20constantly%20told%20that%20if%20we%20eat%20less%20and%20exercise%20more%2C%20the%20pounds%20will%20come%20sliding%20off.%20Not%20true.%C2%A0According%20to%20a%20recent%20study%2C%20small%20caloric%20changes%20have%20almost%20no%20long-term%20effect%20on%20weight.%0D%0A%0D%0AWhile%20this%20news%20is%20disappointing%2C%20Children%27s%20ob\" 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\/RFeGsY-pQ0Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re constantly told that if we eat less and exercise more, the pounds will come sliding off. Not true.\u00a0According to a recent study, small caloric changes have almost no long-term effect on weight. While this news is disappointing, Children&#8217;s obesity expert &#8211; David Ludwig, MD, PhD, tell The New York Times that there is hope, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383375","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=383375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}