{"id":2584,"date":"2013-07-05T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T03:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2013-07-06T10:56:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T22:56:03","slug":"urban-design-linked-to-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=2584","title":{"rendered":"Fat Kids + Urban Design -The Link!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Professor John Ashton, appointed President of the UK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fph.org.uk\/about_us\">Faculty of Public Health<\/a> in July 2013, has suggested children need to walk at least quarter of a mile each day to school keep fit and prevent obesity. <\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2585\" style=\"width: 1405px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2004-FatIrishKidDemo.jpg\" alt=\"2004 Fat Kid Demonstration, Dublin\" title=\"2004 Fat Kid Demonstration, Dublin\" width=\"1405\" height=\"1057\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2004-FatIrishKidDemo.jpg 1405w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2004-FatIrishKidDemo-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2004-FatIrishKidDemo-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2004-FatIrishKidDemo-960x722.jpg 960w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2004-FatIrishKidDemo-720x541.jpg 720w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2004-FatIrishKidDemo-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1405px) 100vw, 1405px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2004 Dublin Cycling Campaign Fat Kid Demonstration, Dublin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>UK National Health Service statistics have shown that between 2000 and 2009 in England and Wale, the number of 5 to 19 year olds admitted to hospital with obesity related issues have increased from 872 to 3,806.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/children_shealth\/10156555\/Ban-school-run-to-keep-children-fit-says-health-chief.html\">Telegraph newspaper<\/a> quotes Prof. Ashton as saying, &#8220;public health efforts must focus on town planning as much as on general health&#8221; and proposing drop-off points a &#8216;quarter-mile&#8217; from school gates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the things we should be doing is really strictly prohibiting cars stopping outside school to drop kids off but having drop-off points, if at all, a few hundred yards away so at least the children get to walk a quarter of a mile each day from the dropping-off point &#8230; it would make a difference,\u201d he told the newspaper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor John Ashton, appointed President of the UK&#8217;s Faculty of Public Health in July 2013, has suggested children need to walk at least quarter of a mile each day to school keep fit and prevent obesity. UK National Health Service statistics have shown that between 2000 and 2009 in England and Wale, the number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}