{"id":11482,"date":"2018-09-13T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11482"},"modified":"2018-09-13T10:41:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T14:41:21","slug":"seven-u-s-states-now-have-adult-obesity-rates-of-35-percent-or-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11482","title":{"rendered":"Seven U.S. states now have adult obesity rates of 35 percent or higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Andrew Joseph for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">Seven U.S. states now have adult obesity rates of 35 percent or higher, up from zero states just five years ago, according to federal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/obesity\/data\/prevalence-maps.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data<\/a>\u00a0released Wednesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/09\/12\/seven-u-s-states-now-have-adult-obesity-rates-of-35-percent-or-higher\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=65895940&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8WG4CaCFSGGJN6ihc_9nJS8yflM5Jj3HKbR5EWbXiR7hQA0ST_c51j05gj2xLjeQJIUeS7ZeRm-wAaT7W8FBsT23DcMg&amp;_hsmi=65895940\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\">\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Andrew Joseph for STAT) Seven U.S. states now have adult obesity rates of 35 percent or higher, up from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11483,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions\/11483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}