{"id":211468319,"date":"2011-09-14T13:11:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T13:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=211468319"},"modified":"2011-09-14T13:11:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T13:11:59","slug":"attacking-the-obesity-epidemic-by-first-figuring-out-its-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=211468319","title":{"rendered":"Attacking the Obesity Epidemic by First Figuring Out Its Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JANE E. BRODY  &#8211; New York Times<br \/>\nIf you have gained a lot of unwanted pounds at any time during the last 30-odd years, you may be relieved to know that you are probably not to blame. At least not entirely.<br \/>\nMany environmental forces, from economic interests of the food and beverage industries to the way our cities and towns are built, have conspired to subvert the body\u2019s natural ability to match calories  in with calories out.<br \/>\nAnd the solution to the nation\u2019s most pressing health problem \u2014 the ever-rising epidemic of overweight and obesity  at all ages \u2014 lies in the answer to this question: Why did this happen in the first place?<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWhat Changed?<br \/>\nWhen I was growing up in the 1940s and \u201950s, I had to walk or bike many blocks to buy an ice cream cone.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/13\/health\/13brody.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/13\/health\/13brody.html<\/a>oldId.20110914131159484<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JANE E. BRODY &#8211; New York Times If you have gained a lot of unwanted pounds at any time during the last 30-odd years, you may be relieved to know that you are probably not to blame. At least not entirely. Many environmental forces, from economic interests of the food and beverage industries to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=211468319\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Attacking the Obesity Epidemic by First Figuring Out Its Cause&#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-211468319","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\/211468319","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=211468319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211468319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211468319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211468319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211468319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}