{"id":88,"date":"2007-10-14T19:38:38","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T19:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brainybehavior.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2007-10-14T19:39:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T19:39:51","slug":"the-threat-of-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainybehavior.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/the-threat-of-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Threat of Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"uogom69e37d3eb97ee\" ><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Mobile in post -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:320px;height:100px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0039142346952764\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1620587573\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n.uogom69e37d3eb97ee {\r\nmargin: 5px; padding: 0px;\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 1201px) {\r\n.uogom69e37d3eb97ee {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 993px) and (max-width: 1200px) {\r\n.uogom69e37d3eb97ee {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 992px) {\r\n.uogom69e37d3eb97ee {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 768px) {\r\n.uogom69e37d3eb97ee {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {\r\n.uogom69e37d3eb97ee {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n<\/style>\r\n<p> The APA online linked to an article from the UK about the threat of obesity. With all of the recent news about climate change, some people are pointing out a threat that is as bad or worse than climate change: obesity. As a clinician I haven&#8217;t dealt with obesity issues (i.e., helping people with weight problems learn how to control their eating better) yet but it causes a lot of problems for people.<\/p>\n<table style=\"clear: left; border: 4px solid #e5e5e5; margin: 12px 0px; background: #ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-family: arial; color: #333333; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; width: 100%\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"CM_CTB_Content_Wrap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: #ffffff\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee; background-image: url('http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/images\/source-bg.gif'); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; 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margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 8px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; text-align: left; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><!-- CLIPPED FROM: http:\/\/www.psycport.com\/showArticle.cfm?xmlFile=bhsuper%5F2007%5F10%5F14%5FINSD%5F0000%2D0893%2DKEYWORD%2EMissing%2Exml&#038;provider=The%20Independent%20on%20Sunday -->\tAlan Johnson, the Secretary of State for Health, warned yesterday<br \/>\nthat Britain&#8217;s obesity crisis is as serious as climate change and<br \/>\nwill demand a review into whether the current ban on junk food<br \/>\nadvertising to children is tough enough.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"border: medium none ; margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 8px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; text-align: left; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; 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With all of the recent news about climate change, some people are pointing out a threat that is as bad or worse than climate change: obesity. As a clinician I haven&#8217;t dealt with obesity issues (i.e., helping people with weight &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainybehavior.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/the-threat-of-obesity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Threat of Obesity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainybehavior.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainybehavior.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainybehavior.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainybehavior.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainybehavior.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainybehavior.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainybehavior.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainybehavior.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainybehavior.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}