{"id":1261,"date":"2010-07-08T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T11:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2010-07-08T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T11:26:01","slug":"fatness-leads-to-inactivity-but-inactivity-does-not-lead-to-fatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/fatness-leads-to-inactivity-but-inactivity-does-not-lead-to-fatness\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatness Leads To Inactivity, But Inactivity Does Not Lead To Fatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlybirddiabetes.org\/news.php\">interesting British study<\/a> following 202 kids for 3 years has announced that <em>\u201cfatness leads to inactivity, but inactivity does not lead to fatness\u201d<\/em>.  Whilst there is no suggestion that exercise isn\u2019t good for children, they have determined that activity levels are not a predictor of Body Mass Index (BMI).  Rather the reverse is true, <strong>a higher BMI is a predictor of future reduced activity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m reminded of this xkcd.com cartoon:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/correlation.png\" alt=\"XKCD Correlation\" \/>\n<p>As if diet wasn\u2019t important enough already, it seems you can\u2019t feed your kid junk, then kick him\/her out to play and hope they burn it off.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting British study following 202 kids for 3 years has announced that \u201cfatness leads to inactivity, but inactivity does not lead to fatness\u201d. Whilst there is no suggestion that exercise isn\u2019t good for children, they have determined that activity levels are not a predictor of Body Mass Index (BMI). Rather the reverse is true, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[81,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-1261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-the-zone-diet","8":"tag-diet","9":"tag-zone-diet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}