{"id":124665,"date":"2017-10-20T11:26:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T11:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tpgold.com\/?p=124665"},"modified":"2017-10-19T05:25:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T05:25:43","slug":"todays-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tpgold.com\/?p=124665","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Health Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less and less people today are experiencing optimum health. According to the CDC, about one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%) are obese. Approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2\u201419 years are obese. <\/p>\n<p>Why the concern? <\/p>\n<p>Research has shown that as weight increases to reach the levels referred to as &quot;overweight&quot; and &quot;obesity,&quot;* the risks for the following conditions also increases:<\/p>\n<p>Coronary heart disease<br \/>\nType 2 diabetes<br \/>\nCancers (endometrial, breast, and colon)<br \/>\nHypertension (high blood pressure)<br \/>\nDyslipidemia (for example, high total cholesterol or high levels of triglycerides)<br \/>\nStroke<br \/>\nLiver and Gallbladder disease<br \/>\nSleep apnea and respiratory problems<br \/>\nOsteoarthritis (a degeneration of cartilage and its underlying bone within a joint)<br \/>\nGynecological problems (abnormal menses, infertility)<br \/>\n*Overweight is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or higher; obesity is defined as a BMI of 30 or higher.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/obesity\/data\/trends.html<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/obesity\/causes\/health.html<\/p>\n<div class=\"ytg-video-url\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Today&#039;s Health Issues\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q7YlpRSE-7Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less and less people today are experiencing optimum health. According to the CDC, about one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%) are obese. Approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2\u201419 years are obese. Why the concern? Research has shown that as weight increases to reach the levels referred to as &quot;overweight&quot; and &quot;obesity,&quot;* &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tpgold.com\/?p=124665\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today&#8217;s Health Issues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10004,10006,10005,10008,10007],"class_list":["post-124665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-zoivi","tag-zoivi-company","tag-zoivi-corporate","tag-zoivi-movies","tag-zoivi-videos","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpgold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpgold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpgold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpgold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpgold.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tpgold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124666,"href":"https:\/\/tpgold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124665\/revisions\/124666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpgold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpgold.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpgold.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpgold.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}