{"id":224096,"date":"2025-10-27T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/turning-point-in-heart-health-occurs-at-1-key-age-its-younger-than-youd-think"},"modified":"2025-10-27T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:07:09","slug":"turning-point-in-heart-health-occurs-at-1-key-age-its-younger-than-youd-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/turning-point-in-heart-health-occurs-at-1-key-age-its-younger-than-youd-think","title":{"rendered":"Turning Point in Heart Health Occurs at 1 Key Age (It\u2019s Younger Than You\u2019d Think)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/turning-point-in-heart-health-occurs-at-1-key-age-its-younger-than-youd-think.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Emerging adulthood \u2013 the life stage that unfolds around ages 18\u201325 \u2013 is full of major transitions, such as starting college or learning a trade, making new friends and romantic connections, and generally becoming more independent.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a stage where behaviors that diminish heart health, such as spending more time sitting, consuming more fast food, and using more tobacco and alcohol, become more common.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, only about 1 in 4 youths <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.socscimed.2017.09.041\">maintain positive health behavior patterns<\/a> during the transition to adulthood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerging adulthood \u2013 the life stage that unfolds around ages 18\u201325 \u2013 is full of major transitions, such as starting college or learning a trade, making new friends and romantic connections, and generally becoming more independent. It\u2019s also a stage where behaviors that diminish heart health, such as spending more time sitting, consuming more fast [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224096","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}