{"id":570458,"date":"2026-03-30T09:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570458\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:37:09","slug":"more-than-half-of-jersey-adults-overweight-or-obese-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570458\/","title":{"rendered":"More than half of Jersey adults overweight or obese, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PHJ&#8217;s report said there was a &#8220;clear gender difference&#8221; with exercise as 61% of men met the recommended levels compared to 48% of women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Inequalities persist, with higher activity among men, younger adults, those coping easily financially, adults with sufficient time, and owner-occupiers, and lower activity among women, older adults, and those facing financial or time pressure,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PHJ said time poverty remained a &#8220;major barrier&#8221; with only 46% of adults who were very time poor meeting the exercise guidelines compared to 67% who were classed as time sufficient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The reported added 31% of adults ate the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also said 15% of adults said they went without fruit or vegetables due to cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHJ&#8217;s report said there was a &#8220;clear gender difference&#8221; with exercise as 61% of men met the recommended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49,48,407,84],"class_list":["post-570458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}