{"id":90657,"date":"2026-06-12T18:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90657"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:46:29","slug":"childs-first-1000-days-of-life-critical-in-preventing-obesity-academics-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/12\/childs-first-1000-days-of-life-critical-in-preventing-obesity-academics-say-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Child\u2019s first 1000 days of life \u2018critical\u2019 in preventing obesity, academics say"},"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\"> < 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\/AA1Hfh0l.img?w=768&h=512&m=6\" alt=\"In the UK, 1.3 million children are obese and a further 2.3 million are overweight (Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Academics are calling for action to prevent unhealthy lifestyles from settling in among babies and toddlers as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/childhood-obesity\" 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}\">childhood obesity<\/a> reaches \u201calarming\u201d levels. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/child-s-first-1000-days-of-life-critical-in-preventing-obesity-academics-say\/ar-AA1HN6X2?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a2c3afec90d42d281b007328a6bde63&cvpid=c0d405cfda1a4a6aad4e82eeb83f54ee&ei=36\">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>Academics are calling for action to prevent unhealthy lifestyles from settling in among babies and toddlers as\u00a0childhood obesity reaches \u201calarming\u201d levels. Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-food-and-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/child-obese.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90657","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=90657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90658,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90657\/revisions\/90658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}