{"id":91919082,"date":"2007-11-30T21:04:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T21:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=91919082"},"modified":"2007-11-30T21:04:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T21:04:42","slug":"high-gas-prices-could-mean-a-slimmer-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=91919082","title":{"rendered":"High Gas Prices Could Mean A Slimmer You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As rising gasoline prices are forcing many Americans to tighten their financial belts, it may lead to them tightening the belts around their waist.<br \/>\n&quot;An additional $1 in real gasoline prices would reduce obesity in the U.S. by 15 percent after three years,&quot; said Charles Courtemanche, an economics researcher at Washington University in St. Louis. &quot;In fact, about 13 percent of the rise in obesity between 1979 and 2004 can be attributed to falling real gas prices during the period.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAccording to Courtemanche&#8217;s analysis, the reduction in obesity caused by a $1 increase in gasoline prices would save 16,000 lives and $17 billion a year.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebostonchannel.com\/automotive\/14096244\/detail.html?rss=bos&amp;psp=news\">https:\/\/www.thebostonchannel.com\/automotive\/14096244\/detail.html?rss=bos&amp;psp=news<\/a>oldId.20071130210442444<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As rising gasoline prices are forcing many Americans to tighten their financial belts, it may lead to them tightening the belts around their waist. &quot;An additional $1 in real gasoline prices would reduce obesity in the U.S. by 15 percent after three years,&quot; said Charles Courtemanche, an economics researcher at Washington University in St. Louis. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=91919082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;High Gas Prices Could Mean A Slimmer You&#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-91919082","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\/91919082","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=91919082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91919082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91919082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91919082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91919082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}