{"id":5734,"date":"2019-10-03T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T09:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5734"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","slug":"south-africa-risks-increase-in-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/03\/south-africa-risks-increase-in-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Risks Increase In Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By\nBBC Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New research has predicted that childhood obesity will\nsoar over the next decade, overwhelming health services around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study by the World Obesity Federation says the\nnumber of children classified as obese will rise to around 250 million by 2030,\nup from 150 million today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organization says the aggressive marketing of junk\nfood is to blame, combined with lax government action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research suggests China and South Africa are\nlikely to see the biggest increases\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/world-africa-47639452?ns_mchannel=social&amp;ns_source=twitter&amp;ns_campaign=bbc_live&amp;ns_linkname=5d958108328b9a066db29921%26South%20Africa%20risks%20increase%20in%20obesity%262019-10-03T05%3A04%3A29.919Z&amp;ns_fee=0&amp;pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:689fc347-6958-446d-8e0d-a5b7c3424775&amp;pinned_post_asset_id=5d958108328b9a066db29921&amp;pinned_post_type=share\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC Africa New research has predicted that childhood obesity will soar over the next decade, overwhelming health services around the world. The study by the World Obesity Federation says&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}