{"id":5147,"date":"2012-07-13T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5147"},"modified":"2012-07-13T03:03:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T07:03:23","slug":"lose-weight-byreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/lose-weight-byreading\/","title":{"rendered":"Lose Weight By\u2026Reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/070912_0848_LoseWeightB1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those who go to the library and those who go to the gym seem to have something in common, writes Fred Pampel. They&#8217;re both generally thin. According to his study:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In theory reading a book is just as low calorie an activity as watching TV or playing cards. Yet those who read books have a lower weight than those who don&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>This connection is strongest for those who live in Western Europe. The relationship is less strong in Eastern Europe and other parts of the world.<\/li>\n<li>This relationship is stronger for women than for men.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Some explanations for this link include:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Educated people are more likely to read books, and are also likely to understand the importance of good health and the steps needed to maintain a healthy body weight.<\/li>\n<li>Graduating from college may give one the confidence necessary to pursue life-long goals and ambitions.<\/li>\n<li>Those who read books likely exist in a social circle that values low body weight. Social norms might be driving weight loss.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more including other explanations for the relationship, how the study was conducted, what the data wasn&#8217;t clear on, which countries the findings were clearest in, and how you can lose 10 pounds, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/health\/to-stay-thin-eat-like-the-cultural-elite-42154\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/health\/to-stay-thin-eat-like-the-cultural-elite-42154\/\">Pacific Standard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2012\/06\/04\/freak-est-links-52\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who go to the library and those who go to the gym seem to have something in common, writes Fred Pampel. They&#8217;re both generally thin. According to his study: In theory reading a book is just as low calorie an activity as watching TV or playing cards. Yet those who read books have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/070912_0848_LoseWeightB1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5194,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions\/5194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}