{"id":181539,"date":"2024-01-27T16:26:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T22:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/healthy-eating-and-activity-reverse-aging-marker-in-kids-with-obesity-study-finds"},"modified":"2024-01-27T16:26:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T22:26:04","slug":"healthy-eating-and-activity-reverse-aging-marker-in-kids-with-obesity-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/healthy-eating-and-activity-reverse-aging-marker-in-kids-with-obesity-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Healthy eating and activity reverse aging marker in kids with obesity, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/healthy-eating-and-activity-reverse-aging-marker-in-kids-with-obesity-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A genetic marker linked to premature aging was reversed in children with obesity during a six-month diet and exercise program, according to a recent study led by the Stanford School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s telomeres\u2014protective molecular \u201ccaps\u201d on the chromosomes\u2014were longer during the weight management program, then were shorter again in the year after the program ended, the study found. <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/ijpo.13082\">The research<\/a> was published last month in Pediatric Obesity.<\/p>\n<p>Like the solid segment at the end of a shoelace, telomeres protect the ends of chromosomes from fraying. In all people, telomeres gradually shorten with aging. Various conditions, including obesity, cause premature shortening of the telomeres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A genetic marker linked to premature aging was reversed in children with obesity during a six-month diet and exercise program, according to a recent study led by the Stanford School of Medicine. Children\u2019s telomeres\u2014protective molecular \u201ccaps\u201d on the chromosomes\u2014were longer during the weight management program, then were shorter again in the year after the program [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}