{"id":72924,"date":"2025-03-04T13:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T13:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72924"},"modified":"2025-03-04T13:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T13:07:56","slug":"british-children-are-now-as-fat-as-american-kids-as-experts-warn-of-looming-crisis-with-shocking-eight-in-ten-british-adults-obese-of-overweight-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/04\/british-children-are-now-as-fat-as-american-kids-as-experts-warn-of-looming-crisis-with-shocking-eight-in-ten-british-adults-obese-of-overweight-by-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"British children are now as fat as American kids &#8211; as experts warn of looming crisis with shocking eight in ten British adults obese of overweight by 2050"},"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=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/03\/03\/15\/95786001-14456117-image-a-1_1741016444481.jpg\" alt=\"The most comprehensive global analysis to date predicts obesity will rise substantially by 2050 in the UK \u00bf and by more than half in some age groups\" width=\"418\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p>British children are the fattest in Europe\u2014holding joint-first place with\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-970866b0-f85a-11ef-9a34-57bcd64a48f5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/germany\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Germany<\/a><\/span> in a new global study that lays bare the shocking extent of the obesity crisis.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-14456117\/British-children-fat-American-kids-experts-warn.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>British children are the fattest in Europe\u2014holding joint-first place with\u00a0Germany in a new global study that lays bare the shocking extent of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72924","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\/2024\/03\/obese-girl.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72924","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=72924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72925,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72924\/revisions\/72925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}