{"id":158503777,"date":"2010-01-09T12:49:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T12:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=158503777"},"modified":"2010-01-09T12:49:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T12:49:37","slug":"study-obesity-rise-hurts-more-than-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=158503777","title":{"rendered":"STUDY: OBESITY RISE HURTS MORE THAN SMOKING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-&gt; According to a Jan. 5th WebMD article, &quot;TAmerica&#8217;s obesity epidemic now poses an equal or greater threat to health-related quality of life than smoking, according to a new study. Researchers say that as obesity in America has risen dramatically in recent years &#8212; and smoking rates have declined &#8212; the contribution of obesity to the burden of disease and shortening of life has increased while smoking&#8217;s role has decreased.&quot;<br \/>\n&quot;The study showed that from 1993 to 2008, the proportion of smokers among U.S. adults declined by 18.5% while the proportion of obese adults increased 85%. Using information from nationwide annual health-related quality-of-life surveys conducted during the same time period, researchers calculated the Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) lost due to these two major health risk factors&#8230;&quot;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yzkljpz\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yzkljpz<\/a><br \/>\nArchive search: Use &quot;Search&quot; window<br \/>\nArchive cost: No<br \/>\nTitle: &quot;Obesity Rise Hurts Health More Than Smoking&quot;<br \/>\nAuthor: Jennifer Warner<br \/>\nFrom CenterLines, the e-newsletter of the National Center for Bicycling &amp; Walking.oldId.20100109124937852<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-&gt; According to a Jan. 5th WebMD article, &quot;TAmerica&#8217;s obesity epidemic now poses an equal or greater threat to health-related quality of life than smoking, according to a new study. Researchers say that as obesity in America has risen dramatically in recent years &#8212; and smoking rates have declined &#8212; the contribution of obesity to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=158503777\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STUDY: OBESITY RISE HURTS MORE THAN SMOKING&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158503777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158503777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158503777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158503777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158503777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158503777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158503777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}