{"id":34247,"date":"2014-05-13T09:47:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T13:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?p=34247"},"modified":"2014-05-13T09:47:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T13:47:45","slug":"boston-com-is-sugar-making-us-our-kids-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/boston-com-is-sugar-making-us-our-kids-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston.com: &#8220;Is Sugar Making Us &#038; Our Kids Fat?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(5\/12\/14)<a href=\"\/sargent\/files\/2009\/11\/Joan-Salge-Blake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sargent\/files\/2009\/11\/Joan-Salge-Blake-499x636.jpg\" alt=\"Joan Salge Blake\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-15872\" height=\"187\" width=\"146\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 &#8220;The No. 1 source of calories among Americans age 2 and older is sugar <em>and<\/em> fat-ladened refined grain-based desserts, such as cookies, cakes, pastries, pies, donuts. Americans are consuming, on average, approximately 140 calories of bakery treats daily.&#8221; &#8211; Clinical Associate Professor and Featured Boston.com blogger Joan Salge Blake<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/lifestyle\/health\/blog\/nutrition\/2014\/05\/katie_courics_documentary_fed.html\">View full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(5\/12\/14)\u00a0 &#8220;The No. 1 source of calories among Americans age 2 and older is sugar and fat-ladened refined grain-based desserts, such as cookies, cakes, pastries, pies, donuts. Americans are consuming, on average, approximately 140 calories of bakery treats daily.&#8221; &#8211; Clinical Associate Professor and Featured Boston.com blogger Joan Salge Blake View full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34249,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34247\/revisions\/34249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}