{"id":2503,"date":"2009-08-12T05:55:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T03:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:02:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:02:30","slug":"depressing-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/depressing-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Depressing Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/11\/health\/11stat.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adult obesity rates are still rising&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Still, compared with 2008, obesity rates rose in almost half the states, and decreased in none. In four states \u2014 Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and West Virginia \u2014 more than 30 percent of adults are obese. Eight of the 10 states with the highest obesity rates are in the South, and Colorado is the only state with a rate under 20 percent. Seven of the 10 states with the highest poverty levels are also among the 10 states with the highest obesity rates.<\/p>\n<p>The trend is up sharply. In 1991, no state had an obesity rate above 20 percent, and in 1981 the national average was 15 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America\u2019s Health, found that in 30 states, 30 percent or more of children ages 10 to 17 were overweight or obese.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/healthyamericans.org\/reports\/obesity2009\/Obesity2009Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full\u00a0&#8220;F As In Fat&#8221;\u00a0report here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adult obesity rates are still rising&#8230; Still, compared with 2008, obesity rates rose in almost half the states, and decreased in none. In four states \u2014 Alabama, Mississippi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,14,24,28],"tags":[623,1863,1236,1413,1686],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9666,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions\/9666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}