{"id":175,"date":"2018-08-10T20:16:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T01:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2018-08-10T20:17:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T01:17:36","slug":"calories_social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/10\/calories_social\/","title":{"rendered":"Calories are a social construct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Yeah, suddenly I remembered I had this blog thing&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>But I was assured that <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/low-calorie-diets-affect-mens-womens-bodies-differently\/story?id=57109436\">gender was an illusion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After eight weeks on the low-calorie, high-protein diet, all participants had lost about 10 percent of their body weight and gained control of their blood sugar, researchers said.\u00a0 In addition, men lost significantly more body fat than women, had improved resting heart rate, lower bad cholesterol and had lost a few inches off their waist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They also probably will still die sooner, but still&#8230; privilege!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Yeah, suddenly I remembered I had this blog thing&#8230;) But I was assured that gender&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","wpcat-12-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}