{"id":26,"date":"2006-04-21T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/wordpress\/want-to-lose-weight-buy-a-dog\/"},"modified":"2006-04-21T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T14:11:00","slug":"want-to-lose-weight-buy-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/want-to-lose-weight-buy-a-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Want To Lose Weight? Buy A Dog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:arial\">Here&#8217;s something interesting for any of you chronic dieters&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\">Researchers at the University of Missouri found that individuals who walked a dog regularly lost around 14 lbs. annually. Believe it or not, that&#8217;s more than they would have achieved had they participated in a nationally recognized diet program. These individuals spent a mere 20 minutes a day, 5 days a week walking with Rover in tow. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\">What&#8217;s this study show us?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\">First, it emphasizes the power of simple walking. Any sensible diet plan must include exercise, but this study shows us that you needn&#8217;t &#8220;suffer&#8221; through intense aerobic sessions or resistance training programs to achieve results. Walking is easy, enjoyable, and as this study plainly shows&#8230; effective.     <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\">Second, owning or taking responsibility for a pet forces you to get out each and every day&#8230; regardless of how you feel, or the state of the weather. Rover needs to get, and therefore, so do you!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\">Moral of this story?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\">If you want to lose weight&#8230; buy a dog or take responsibility for walking a neigbour&#8217;s pet!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something interesting for any of you chronic dieters&#8230;Researchers at the University of Missouri found that individuals who walked a dog regularly lost around 14 lbs. annually. Believe [&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\/26"}],"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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}