{"id":8432,"date":"2013-03-30T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8432"},"modified":"2013-03-30T20:47:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T00:47:09","slug":"how-do-we-reduce-childhood-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/how-do-we-reduce-childhood-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do We Reduce Childhood Obesity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8433\" alt=\"child on scales\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/child-on-scales.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/child-on-scales.jpg 537w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/child-on-scales-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/child-on-scales-222x160.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2013\/03\/27\/100-ways-to-fight-obesity-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast\/\">Steve Levitt<\/a> hosted a discussion of &#8216;outsiders&#8217; (economists, psychologists and political scientists), alongside in the field non-profit workers on the subject of child obesity. Some of the highlights that discussion were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Whilst children are more likely than adults to be bullied for being overweight, it is adults&#8217; health that suffers. So social costs of obesity drop off with age (generally), as medical costs rise<\/li>\n<li>The time-lapse between a child eating and gaining weight makes it harder to perceive the cause-effect relationship. In animals a 4-minute lapse between cause and effect means the animal never learns.<\/li>\n<li>Since the 1950&#8217;s USA tobacco use has dropped from 45% to about 24%. Which estimates suggest account for maybe 20% of existing obesity.<\/li>\n<li>Childhood obesity campaigns can have the unintended consequence of increasing eating disorders. But campaigns focused solely on healthy eating don&#8217;t have this problem.<\/li>\n<li>As a way to help individuals stop eating so much, one solution is to carry around a disgusting smell in a jar. When tempted to eat, this could be sniffed. As an experiment, Levitt passed the jar around the room. The outsiders tried the smells, but the workers &#8216;in the field&#8217; wouldn&#8217;t go near them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read (or listen) more about other suggestions to cut child obesity, who might be considered to be responsible and what this has to do with Harlem school drop-outs over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2013\/03\/27\/100-ways-to-fight-obesity-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2013\/03\/27\/100-ways-to-fight-obesity-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Levitt hosted a discussion of &#8216;outsiders&#8217; (economists, psychologists and political scientists), alongside in the field non-profit workers on the subject of child obesity. Some of the highlights that discussion were: Whilst children are more likely than adults to be bullied for being overweight, it is adults&#8217; health that suffers. So social costs of obesity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/child-on-scales.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8432"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8437,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8432\/revisions\/8437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}