{"id":661,"date":"2009-08-05T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2009-08-05T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T16:00:02","slug":"obesity-information-it-starts-with-the-letters-nhanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2009\/08\/05\/661\/","title":{"rendered":"Obesity information-it starts with the letters NHANES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released information concerning the prevalence and costs of the growing epidemic of obesity in the United States. Some of the most critical information concerning the weight of the nation is collected in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which takes actual measurements of a nationally representative sample of the U.S. population. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">For the most recent information on obesity and overweight, please visit the Health E-Stat report at <a title=\"Health E-Stat on Overweight and Obesity in the U.S. (Adults)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/pubs\/pubd\/hestats\/overweight\/overweight_adult.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/pubs\/pubd\/hestats\/overweight\/overweight_adult.htm<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">For a more general overview, visit <a title=\"Link to Overweight and Obesity FastStats page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/overwt.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/overwt.htm<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">As always, the NCHS press office can be reached at 301-458-4800.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released information concerning the prevalence and costs of the growing epidemic of obesity in the United States. Some of the most critical information concerning the weight of the nation is collected in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which takes actual measurements of a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62237,62277,62322,63674,63685,50899,15129,63718],"tags":[63918,64034,64195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}