{"id":39906,"date":"2022-12-15T16:33:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=39906"},"modified":"2022-12-15T16:33:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:33:41","slug":"cdc-forced-to-extend-childhood-bmi-scale-and-create-super-obese-category-because-so-many-minors-were-off-the-charts-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/15\/cdc-forced-to-extend-childhood-bmi-scale-and-create-super-obese-category-because-so-many-minors-were-off-the-charts-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC forced to extend childhood BMI scale and create super obese category because so many minors were &#8216;off the charts&#8217; fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23566\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/obese-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/obese-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/obese-500x463.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/obese.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>US health officials have had to create a new body mass index (BMI) category for the most obese children because so many were &#8216;off the charts fat&#8217;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11542065\/CDC-extends-child-BMI-scale-charts-fat.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>US health officials have had to create a new body mass index (BMI) category for the most obese children because so many&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CDC.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39907,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39906\/revisions\/39907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}