{"id":77488,"date":"2025-07-16T08:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77488"},"modified":"2025-07-16T08:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:01:18","slug":"being-a-couch-potato-has-long-been-blamed-for-obesity-a-new-study-has-found-the-real-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/16\/being-a-couch-potato-has-long-been-blamed-for-obesity-a-new-study-has-found-the-real-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a couch potato has long been blamed for obesity &#8211; a new study has found the real cause"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1IFfd9.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The study found that people across dozens of countries all burned similar amounts of calories, regardless of their lifestyles.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new study has turned\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/bmi-definition-calculator-obesity-diagnosis-b2680551.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">common conceptions of what causes obesity<\/a>\u00a0on its head, revealing that reduced physical activity may not have as large a role in our size as our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/diet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">diets.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/nutrition\/being-a-couch-potato-has-long-been-blamed-for-obesity-a-new-study-has-found-the-real-cause\/ar-AA1IFbeo?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=4040c8329de34efea9cc1aabe811a5aa&amp;ei=13\">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>A new study has turned\u00a0common conceptions of what causes obesity\u00a0on its head, revealing that reduced physical activity may not have as large&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77488","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\/2023\/03\/Mediterranean-Diet-1.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77488","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=77488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77489,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77488\/revisions\/77489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}