{"id":1100,"date":"2009-11-09T11:07:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T11:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2009-11-09T11:07:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T11:07:30","slug":"teenage-obesity-contributes-to-degradation-of-nervous-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/teenage-obesity-contributes-to-degradation-of-nervous-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage obesity contributes to degradation of nervous system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research suggests that obesity in teenagers increases the chance of developing multiple sclerosis.<\/p>\n<p>Obesity is the result of eating too much food, and unhealthy food, food that is high in fats and sugars. Often these foods enjoyed by teenagers also contain additives.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multiple_Sclerosis\">Multiple sclerosis<\/a>, apparently, is evidenced by demyelination of the nervous system &#8211; or a breakdown of the fatty sheath that encases nerves.\u00a0 So it seems to me that the empirical evidence is underpinned by a common sense connection.\u00a0 And is another good reason for teenagers and their parents to care about how much and what is eaten.<\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8342585.stm\">Teenage obesity link to future MS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research suggests that obesity in teenagers increases the chance of developing multiple sclerosis. Obesity is the result of eating too much food, and unhealthy food, food that is high in fats and sugars. Often these foods enjoyed by teenagers also contain additives.\u00a0 Multiple sclerosis, apparently, is evidenced by demyelination of the nervous system &#8211; &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/teenage-obesity-contributes-to-degradation-of-nervous-system\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teenage obesity contributes to degradation of nervous system<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-hK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}