{"id":957,"date":"2008-08-14T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T21:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/clumsy-kids-become-overweight-adults\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T16:02:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T21:02:16","slug":"clumsy-kids-become-overweight-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/clumsy-kids-become-overweight-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Clumsy Kids Become Overweight Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/clumsy.jpg\" alt=\"Clumsy man\" align=\"right\" height=\"212\" width=\"212\" \/>Researchers may have stumbled upon an interesting foreshadowing to obesity in adults. Clumsy kids may grow into a life of obesity, if <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20080812\/hl_nm\/obesity_clumsiness_dc\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Clumsy Obesity\">a European study<\/a> has any validity to it.<\/p>\n<p>A study of thousands of British children found that those with the worst cognitive and physical function at the ages of seven and 11 were much more likely to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/kids-have-to-go-on-weight-loss-drugs\/\" title=\"childhood obesity\" target=\"_blank\">obese<\/a> later in life. It&#8217;s unclear why there is a connection, but scientists are finding a number of connections between neurological problems and obesity. So, it may not be as ridiculous as it sounds. The most logical explanation may be that clumsy kids don&#8217;t exercise, then grow up to be sedentary adults. But the study hints at more complicated explanations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers may have stumbled upon an interesting foreshadowing to obesity in adults. Clumsy kids may grow into a life of obesity, if a European study has any validity to it. A study of thousands of British children found that those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/clumsy-kids-become-overweight-adults\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[31,29],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-health-news","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}