{"id":2663,"date":"2014-01-17T00:05:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T00:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/community-programs-may-help-dads-lose-weight-2\/"},"modified":"2014-01-17T00:05:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T00:05:22","slug":"community-programs-may-help-dads-lose-weight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/17\/community-programs-may-help-dads-lose-weight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Community programs may help dads lose weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Shereen Jegtvig NEW YORK (Reuters Health) \u2013 Men who participated in a community fitness program for obese fathers lost weight and increased their activity levels in a new study from Australia. The researchers\u2019 main goal was to test the \u2018Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids\u2019 program in a real-world setting to see if it helped reduce obesity among the men participating \u2013 with the hope it would improve the eating habits and activity levels of their children too. \u201cInternationally, obesity in men and obesity prevention in children are public health priorities,\u201d Philip Morgan, who led the study, told Reuters Health in an email. \u201cFathers have a unique and important role in the lifestyle behaviors of their children, yet little is known about how best to engage them in lifestyle interventions,\u201d Morgan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shereen Jegtvig NEW YORK (Reuters Health) \u2013 Men who participated in a community fitness program for obese fathers lost weight and increased their activity levels in a new study from Australia. The researchers\u2019 main goal was to test the \u2018Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids\u2019 program in a real-world setting to see if it helped reduce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}