{"id":3994,"date":"2019-09-18T19:05:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umang.pk\/2019\/09\/overweight-people-more-likely-to-have-overweight-dogs-study\/"},"modified":"2019-09-18T19:05:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:05:51","slug":"overweight-people-more-likely-to-have-overweight-dogs-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/2019\/09\/18\/overweight-people-more-likely-to-have-overweight-dogs-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Overweight people more likely to have overweight dogs: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"line textcontent_img watermark\">\n<p><strong>Copenhagen:<\/strong> Overweight people said they are more likely to have an overweight dog.<\/p>\n<p>Research at the University of Copenhagen says scientists trust the phrase &quot;like a veterinary owner&quot; in a journal of preventive veterinary medicine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe prevalence of heavy or obese dogs is more than double that of people who are light or obese (35%) than those who are slim or normal weight (14%).<\/p>\n<p>Of the 268 dogs studied, 20% were overweight.<\/p>\n<p>Middle-weight owners tend to use snacks for training purposes, but overweight owners may want to provide snacks in a playful situation, such as &quot;when relaxing on the couch and sharing the last bite of a sandwich or cookie with a dog.&quot; I prefer that. Charlotte Bjornvad, the main author of the study, said.<\/p>\n<p>In developed countries, 34-59% of dogs are overweight or obese, which, like humans, another international research team discovered in 2016, can reduce lifespan and mobility, or cause diabetes and heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>On average, overweight dogs live 1.3 years less than dogs on a limited diet.<\/p>\n<p>A study by the University of Copenhagen found that castration was three times more risky of being heavy or obese.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Casting can increase your risk of becoming overweight by reducing exercise incentives while reducing your appetite in male dogs,&quot; says Bjornvad.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>\n<p>Source Link : https:\/\/www.pakistantoday.com.pk\/2019\/09\/18\/overweight-people-more-likely-to-have-overweight-dogs-study\/<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copenhagen: Overweight people said they are more likely to have an overweight dog. Research at the University of Copenhagen says scientists trust the phrase &quot;like a veterinary owner&quot; in a journal of preventive veterinary medicine. \u201cThe prevalence of heavy or obese dogs is more than double that of people who are light or obese (35%) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5363],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}