{"id":193413407,"date":"2011-02-17T13:56:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T13:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=193413407"},"modified":"2011-02-17T13:56:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T13:56:47","slug":"obesity-may-cost-texas-biz-32-5b-year-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=193413407","title":{"rendered":"OBESITY MAY COST TEXAS BIZ $32.5B\/YEAR BY 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from CenterLines, the e-newsletter of the National Center for Bicycling &amp; Walking.<br \/>\n-&gt; According to a Feb. 7th KUT News story, &quot;Obesity in Texas could cost businesses in the state more than $30 billion a year by the year 2030, if obesity rates and health care costs continue to increase as expected. That&#8217;s according to a report released Monday morning by Texas Comptroller Susan Combs. The report says right now obesity is costing Texas businesses $9.5 billion a year in health care, absenteeism, decreased productivity and disability. The Comptroller is urging schools, lawmakers and others to implement more initiatives to prevent and combat obesity&#8230;&quot;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kutnews.org\/post\/comptroller-obesity-may-cost-texas-businesses-325-billion-year-2030\">https:\/\/kutnews.org\/post\/comptroller-obesity-may-cost-texas-businesses-325-billion-year-2030<\/a>oldId.20110217135647491<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CenterLines, the e-newsletter of the National Center for Bicycling &amp; Walking. -&gt; According to a Feb. 7th KUT News story, &quot;Obesity in Texas could cost businesses in the state more than $30 billion a year by the year 2030, if obesity rates and health care costs continue to increase as expected. That&#8217;s according to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=193413407\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OBESITY MAY COST TEXAS BIZ $32.5B\/YEAR BY 2030&#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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193413407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193413407","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=193413407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193413407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193413407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193413407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193413407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}