{"id":4894,"date":"2011-05-23T05:41:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T03:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=4894"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:01:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:01:44","slug":"lat-why-are-unhealthy-people-reluctant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/lat-why-are-unhealthy-people-reluctant\/","title":{"rendered":"LAT: &#8220;Why Are Unhealthy People so Reluctant to Change Their Lifestyles?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2011\/may\/23\/health\/la-he-the-md-change-illness-20110523\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The title says it all, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazingly, people who have already suffered heart trouble, diabetes or other lifestyle-related illnesses \u2014people who intimately know the consequences of their behaviors \u2014 often have an especially hard time turning things around. It seems it takes more than a wake-up call, even a life-threatening one, to get people to give up their unhealthful ways.<\/p>\n<p>At least 40% of smokers who survive a heart attack are still puffing away a year later.<\/p>\n<p>And you might think that an overweight person would slim down after a heart attack. But often, not so. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis followed a group of more than 1,200 overweight men and women for a year following a heart attack. Their study, published in the American Heart Journal in 2007, found that individuals lost an average of just 0.2% of their body weight. For a 220-pound man, that would translate to less than 1 pound of weight loss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve known people like this&#8230; some are simply fatalistic while others are (apparently) in denial. It&#8217;s their choice, of course, although it&#8217;s a head-scratcher for the rest of us, for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title says it all, doesn&#8217;t it? Amazingly, people who have already suffered heart trouble, diabetes or other lifestyle-related illnesses \u2014people who intimately know the consequences of their [&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":[1018],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894"}],"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=4894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9600,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions\/9600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}