{"id":8400,"date":"2016-11-01T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyonhealth.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/01\/lack-of-time-not-the-only-reason-parents-buy-tv-dinners\/"},"modified":"2016-11-01T20:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T20:31:31","slug":"lack-of-time-not-the-only-reason-parents-buy-tv-dinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/01\/lack-of-time-not-the-only-reason-parents-buy-tv-dinners\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of time not the only reason parents buy TV dinners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) &#8211; Many parents may be too busy to cook family dinners, but fighting the clock isn\u2019t the only reason they turn to microwaveable frozen meals, a recent U.S. study suggests. \u201cUltimately, as a society, we need to increase affordability of healthy foods and meal planning and cooking skills training opportunities,\u201d said lead study author Melissa Horning, a researcher at the University of Minnesota\u2019s school of nursing in Minneapolis, \u201cbecause it can be hard to make healthy dietary choices that involve cooking when the environment is filled with easy access, low-cost, prepackaged processed meals, which require little skill and effort to prepare.\u201d The problem with prepackaged, processed meals is they tend to be high in added fats, sugar and salt, Horning said by email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) &#8211; Many parents may be too busy to cook family dinners, but fighting the clock isn\u2019t the only reason they turn to microwaveable frozen meals, a recent U.S. study suggests. \u201cUltimately, as a society, we need to increase affordability of healthy foods and meal planning and cooking skills training opportunities,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-8400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}