{"id":1049,"date":"2009-02-24T00:25:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T22:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:27:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:27:29","slug":"scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/scary\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, Now This Is Just Scary&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.ahrq.gov\/research\/oct08\/1008RA32.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this article<\/a> the other day. It indicates that 9 of 10 adults could be overweight or obese by 2030. The ramifications of this are frightening; since obesity is associated with an increased risk of various maladies (heart disease, diabetes, stroke and various types of cancer to name a few) a trend like this could pretty much financially cripple our health care systems &#8211; both\u00a0in Canada and the U.S. And that, of course, does not even address the human cost involved in this. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This study should serve as a wake up call to politicians and policy makers, who need to stand up to the food industry and begin implementing the steps necessary to reduce\u00a0its pervasive influence. Restricting\u00a0its ability to market junk food to children would be, for example, a great start. All restaurants need to held accountable for providing their clientele with a nutritional breakdown of their offerings. Product labeling must be more transparent,\u00a0\u00a0and, of course, a focus on public education on nutrition must become a priority.<\/p>\n<p>Really, many of these\u00a0issues could be addressed very easily\u00a0if people had a basic idea of the amount of calories\u00a0they \u00a0required on a daily basis, and how many they were consuming from their food. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it is evident that the time for idle chatter is fast disappearing. We need action now&#8230;\u00a0our financial and the physical health is at stake!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across this article the other day. It indicates that 9 of 10 adults could be overweight or obese by 2030. The ramifications of this are frightening; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8337,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/8337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}