{"id":93690,"date":"2026-09-03T09:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93690"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:06:39","slug":"from-hunger-to-obesity-developing-world-faces-growing-threat-to-child-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/from-hunger-to-obesity-developing-world-faces-growing-threat-to-child-health\/","title":{"rendered":"From hunger to obesity: Developing world faces growing threat to child health"},"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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2brS03.img?w=768&h=512&m=6\" alt=\"Intan Permatasari, 15, gestures at her home in Bogor, West Java province, Indonesia, August 20, 2026. Intan's confidence has returned as her weight has dropped. She goes to the gym, eats out with her parents, and returned to school last month. She still dreams of becoming a police officer. &quot;They like to help people,&quot; Intan said. &quot;I want to prove to people who bully me, who make fun of me, that I can be a hero.&quot; REUTERS\/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana\" width=\"633\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Intan Permatasari\u2019s mother simply couldn\u2019t refuse her daughter\u2019s pleas for food. By the time she was 4, Intan had outgrown all the kindergarten uniforms and had to wear home-sewn clothes to school. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/nutrition\/from-hunger-to-obesity-developing-world-faces-growing-threat-to-child-health\/ar-AA2bruKK?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=000fe470ff9e494cb4b5177f7ae7c2df&ei=12\">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>Intan Permatasari\u2019s mother simply couldn\u2019t refuse her daughter\u2019s pleas for food. By the time she was 4, Intan had outgrown all the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/obese-child.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93690","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=93690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93691,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93690\/revisions\/93691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}