{"id":38699,"date":"2020-01-11T20:58:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T20:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38699"},"modified":"2020-01-11T20:58:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T20:58:23","slug":"health-and-fitness-why-people-gain-weight-with-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/health-and-fitness-why-people-gain-weight-with-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Health and fitness: why people gain weight with age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about health and fitness: the tutor explores the reason people tend to gain weight with age.<\/h2>\n<p>\nAccording to an article I read recently, weight gain with age, for the most part, isn&#8217;t for the cliche reason that &#8220;your metabolism slows as you get older.&#8221; Rather, it&#8217;s because people&#8217;s physical activity tends to decrease with age. As an example, if you drive as an adult, but walked as a kid, of course you&#8217;ll tend to gain more weight as an adult unless you compensate with some other activity.\n<\/p>\n<p>The point is obvious enough, but its truth might be more powerful than people typically acknowledge.\n<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/weight-gain-obesity-metabolism-overweight-healthy-eating-lifestyle-weightless-exercise-physical-a8089406.html\">independent.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about health and fitness: the tutor explores the reason people tend to gain weight with age. According to an article I read recently, weight gain with age, for the most part, isn&#8217;t for the cliche reason that &#8220;your metabolism &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/health-and-fitness-why-people-gain-weight-with-age\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health and fitness: why people gain weight with age<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise-and-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38701,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38699\/revisions\/38701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}