{"id":2611,"date":"2009-09-09T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=2611"},"modified":"2015-02-15T00:34:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T05:34:18","slug":"americans-denial-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/americans-denial-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans in Denial About Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mintel.com\/press-centre\/beauty-and-personal-care\/new-mintel-survey-shows-americans-in-denial-about-health?id=389\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">That&#8217;s the\u00a0conclusion of a recent survey by Mintel<\/a>, a global marketing research company.\u00a0 According to their data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>only 25% of respondents think they&#8217;re overweight or obese (while Mintel&#8217;s own data from a separate report on obesity indicates 65% of respondents fall into this category).<\/li>\n<li>70% think they should exercise more&#8230; but evidently don&#8217;t\u00a0(only 37% say they exercise &#8220;regularly&#8221;, while 48% work out twice\/wk or less).<\/li>\n<li>65% say they &#8220;try to eat healthier food these days&#8221; but 59% say they eat the foods they like &#8220;regardless of calories&#8221; and 45% feel they often overeat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The survey respondents clearly indicate that the vast majority (90%) think it&#8217;s &#8220;very important&#8221; or at least &#8220;somewhat important&#8221; to live a healthy lifestyle, but are evidently not following up.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not as if the messages aren&#8217;t getting through, but it seems that they&#8217;re not being taken seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the\u00a0conclusion of a recent survey by Mintel, a global marketing research company.\u00a0 According to their data: only 25% of respondents think they&#8217;re overweight or obese (while Mintel&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,28],"tags":[610,839,1208,1236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611"}],"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=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8785,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions\/8785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}