{"id":73147,"date":"2025-03-10T08:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T08:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=73147"},"modified":"2025-03-10T08:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T08:53:05","slug":"why-women-are-most-at-risk-in-africas-obesity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/10\/why-women-are-most-at-risk-in-africas-obesity-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Why women are most at risk in Africa&#8217;s obesity crisis"},"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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/africafeeds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FAT-WOMEN.png\" alt=\"These women are 'fat, ugly and proud' - Africa Feeds\" width=\"480\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Almost half of women in Africa will be obese or overweight by 2030, according to a new study, an &#8220;alarming rise&#8221; that has been &#8220;compared with the HIV epidemic&#8221;, said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/mar\/06\/nearly-half-of-women-in-africa-will-be-obese-or-overweight-by-2030-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">The Guardian<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/nutrition\/why-women-are-most-at-risk-in-africa-s-obesity-crisis\/ar-AA1AA2Kh?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">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>&nbsp; Almost half of women in Africa will be obese or overweight by 2030, according to a new study, an &#8220;alarming rise&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73147","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\/2025\/03\/Black-woman-weight.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73147","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=73147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73149,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73147\/revisions\/73149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}