{"id":593,"date":"2008-12-15T23:24:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T23:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2008-12-15T23:24:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T23:24:40","slug":"mind-over-matter-the-brain-controls-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/mind-over-matter-the-brain-controls-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind over matter &#8211; the brain controls obesity."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New genetic research suggests that the brain has a significant role in controlling obesity, far more so than metabolism.\u00a0 However, the research suggests that one&#8217;s natural genetics do influence the propensity to build body fat, but that propensity is a brain physiology rather than metabolic.<\/p>\n<p>It remains true that a healthy lifestyle leads to a healthy body and an unhealthy lifestyle rapidly develops an unhealthy physique.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/7783088.stm\">BBC report Obesity &#8216;controlled by the brain&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New genetic research suggests that the brain has a significant role in controlling obesity, far more so than metabolism.\u00a0 However, the research suggests that one&#8217;s natural genetics do influence the propensity to build body fat, but that propensity is a brain physiology rather than metabolic. It remains true that a healthy lifestyle leads to a &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/mind-over-matter-the-brain-controls-obesity\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mind over matter &#8211; the brain controls obesity.<\/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-593","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-9z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}