{"id":17945,"date":"2010-02-16T06:07:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T06:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/grandparents_who_care_for_children_boost_obesity_risk\/"},"modified":"2010-02-16T06:07:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T06:07:58","slug":"grandparents_who_care_for_children_boost_obesity_risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17945","title":{"rendered":"Grandparents who care for children &#39;boost obesity risk&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young children who are regularly looked after by their grandparents have an increased risk of being overweight, an extensive British study has suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis of 12,000 three-year olds suggested the risk was 34% higher if grandparents cared for them full time.<\/p>\n<p>Children who went to nursery or had a childminder had no increased risk of weight problems, the International Journal of Obesity reported.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a quarter of preschool children in the UK are overweight or obese.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8513112.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young children who are regularly looked after by their grandparents have an increased risk of being overweight, an extensive British study has suggested. Analysis of 12,000 three-year olds suggested the risk was 34% higher if grandparents cared for them full<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17945\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,103,101,100,199,104,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-children","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-england-uk","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}