{"id":4141,"date":"2011-11-17T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2011-11-15T19:21:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T00:21:19","slug":"zip-code-contributes-to-diabetes-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/11\/17\/zip-code-contributes-to-diabetes-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Zip Code Contributes to Diabetes Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/11\/17\/zip-code-contributes-to-diabetes-risk\/zipcode\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3998\" title=\"zipcode\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/zipcode-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/zipcode-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/zipcode-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Living in a poor neighborhood may contribute to diabetes risk as much as diet and physical activity levels, according to a study published in this week\u2019s New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>In this study, adults that took advantage of a government-sponsored program to move people into better neighborhoods reduced their BMI and markers of diabetes risk.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists found that moving into a more posh area reduced BMI by an average of 13%. Importantly, HbA1c, a marker of long-term blood sugar levels, dropped by 21%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=584\">Other strange ways to combat diabetes (and win!)&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Health,<\/p>\n<p>Jodi Knapp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in a poor neighborhood may contribute to diabetes risk as much as diet and physical activity levels, according to a study published in this week\u2019s New England Journal of Medicine. In this study, adults that took advantage of a government-sponsored program to move people into better neighborhoods reduced their BMI and markers of diabetes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-diabetes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}