{"id":214115,"date":"2025-05-16T01:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T06:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/link-between-adhd-and-obesity-might-depend-on-where-you-live"},"modified":"2025-05-16T01:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T06:07:02","slug":"link-between-adhd-and-obesity-might-depend-on-where-you-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/link-between-adhd-and-obesity-might-depend-on-where-you-live","title":{"rendered":"Link between ADHD and obesity might depend on where you live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/link-between-adhd-and-obesity-might-depend-on-where-you-live.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) might contribute to obesity by reducing physical activity\u2014a relationship that can also be mediated by the features of the urban environment in which a person lives.<\/p>\n<p>That is the conclusion of a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pcsy.0000046\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>PLOS Complex Systems<\/i> by Tian Gan, Rayan Succar, and Maurizio Porfiri of the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University, U.S., and Simone Macr\u00ec of the Italian National Institute of Health, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>For years, scientists have suspected that impulsivity\u2014including conditions like ADHD\u2014may increase the risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/obesity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">obesity<\/a>, but much of the evidence has focused on individual traits and behaviors, placing limited attention toward environmental and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/social+factors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">social factors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) might contribute to obesity by reducing physical activity\u2014a relationship that can also be mediated by the features of the urban environment in which a person lives. That is the conclusion of a new study published in PLOS Complex Systems by Tian Gan, Rayan Succar, and Maurizio Porfiri of the Tandon School of [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214115","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=214115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}