{"id":6042,"date":"2012-05-01T04:55:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T02:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2012-12-01T03:05:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T03:05:35","slug":"whos-winning-the-war-on-childhood-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/whos-winning-the-war-on-childhood-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Winning the War on Childhood Obesity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/04\/27\/us-usa-foodlobby-idUSBRE83Q0ED20120427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this special report from Reuters<\/a>, it&#8217;s &#8220;[t]he side with the fattest wallets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the food industry side, natch. This one small paragraph speaks volumes about industry clout:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At every level of government, the food and beverage industries won fight after fight during the last decade. They have never lost a significant political battle in the United States despite mounting scientific evidence of the role of unhealthy food and children&#8217;s marketing in obesity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a long article, but worth a read, as it reveals the extent to which the\u00a0&#8220;Big Food&#8221;\u00a0has fought back against even voluntary guidelines. As far as\u00a0the industry is concerned, it&#8217;s full speed ahead!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/04\/27\/us-usa-foodlobby-idUSBRE83Q0ED20120427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read it and weep.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this special report from Reuters, it&#8217;s &#8220;[t]he side with the fattest wallets.&#8221; It&#8217;s the food industry side, natch. This one small paragraph speaks volumes about industry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,28],"tags":[683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042"}],"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=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6403,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions\/6403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}