{"id":520,"date":"2008-10-03T09:17:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T09:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2008-10-03T09:17:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T09:17:09","slug":"obesity-is-in-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/obesity-is-in-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Obesity is in the mind."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests again that diet is important to physical condition.\u00a0 US researchers said poor diets may trigger a signalling system which prompts the body to consume even more.\u00a0 The research focussed on certain a protein that appears to influence inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/7649261.stm\">BBC news report here<\/a>\u00a0 reinforces the understanding that mental condition strongly influences the way we eat.\u00a0 If we are depressed we go for the chocolate and ice-cream.\u00a0 If we&#8217;re happy we run around having fun. Importantly the research reinforces the complexity of the human metabolism and the simple advice that healthy eating, some exercise and low stress promote fitness in body, mind and spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests again that diet is important to physical condition.\u00a0 US researchers said poor diets may trigger a signalling system which prompts the body to consume even more.\u00a0 The research focussed on certain a protein that appears to influence inflammation. The\u00a0 BBC news report here\u00a0 reinforces the understanding that mental condition strongly influences the &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/obesity-is-in-the-mind\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obesity is in the mind.<\/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-520","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-8o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","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=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}