{"id":313368758,"date":"2014-12-06T22:52:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T22:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=313368758"},"modified":"2014-12-06T22:52:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T22:52:38","slug":"denmark-comprehensive-effective-program-treats-childhood-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=313368758","title":{"rendered":"DENMARK: COMPREHENSIVE, EFFECTIVE PROGRAM TREATS CHILDHOOD OBESITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-&gt; According to a Nov. 8th BBC News article, &quot;Childhood obesity has become a global epidemic, but it is not easy to treat. Now a scheme proven to help children shed pounds by asking them and their families to make numerous lifestyle changes has been adopted across Denmark.<br \/>\n&quot;A Danish pediatrician claims his pilot project has made a significant breakthrough in the battle against childhood obesity. The scheme, in the town of Holbaek, has treated 1,900 patients and helped 70% of them to maintain normal weight by adjusting about 20 elements of their lifestyles. The way it tackles all aspects of the children&#8217;s lives &#8211; and those of their families &#8211; sets it apart from traditional &#8216;small steps&#8217; approaches to losing weight&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;At the beginning of the programme, children are admitted to hospital for 24 hours for extensive testing, including body scans to measure their body fat. They also answer a detailed questionnaire about their eating habits and behaviour patterns&#8230; The programme requires wholesale changes in lifestyle to defeat the body&#8217;s natural resistance to losing fat, and each child has a personalised treatment plan which targets 15-20 daily habits [including bicycling or walking to school]&#8230;&quot;<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/1xCDL5Y\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/1xCDL5Y<\/a><br \/>\nfrom CenterLines, the e-newsletter of the National Center for Bicycling &amp; Walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-&gt; According to a Nov. 8th BBC News article, &quot;Childhood obesity has become a global epidemic, but it is not easy to treat. Now a scheme proven to help children shed pounds by asking them and their families to make numerous lifestyle changes has been adopted across Denmark. &quot;A Danish pediatrician claims his pilot project &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=313368758\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DENMARK: COMPREHENSIVE, EFFECTIVE PROGRAM TREATS CHILDHOOD OBESITY&#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-313368758","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\/313368758","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=313368758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313368758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313368758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313368758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313368758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}