{"id":1661,"date":"2008-10-30T20:48:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T20:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:43:09","slug":"challenging-inadequate-policy-responses-to-childhood-obesity-whats-holding-us-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Inadequate Policy Responses to Childhood Obesity: What&#8217;s holding us back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Misguided public policies that fail to protect the health of children undermine the fight against childhood obesity, according to a winning submission to the Canadian Obesity Network&#8217;s annual thesis competition. It&#8217;s not enough to say that we&#8217;re going to educate people about how to lead a healthy lifestyle &#8211; we&#8217;ve been doing that for a long time, and the problem isn&#8217;t going away, Purcell explains. Find her thesis here: http:\/\/www.obesitynetwork.ca\/files\/CON_2008_Winning_Thesis_PURCELL3340.pdf<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/Are-Public-Policy-Failures-Blame\/story.aspx?guid=%7B940CA6CE-4586-46C5-B9AA-2E6B8F97FD58%7D\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misguided public policies that fail to protect the health of children undermine the fight against childhood obesity, according to a winning submission to the Canadian Obesity Network&#8217;s annual thesis competition. It&#8217;s not enough to say that we&#8217;re going to educate people about how to lead a healthy lifestyle &#8211; we&#8217;ve been doing that for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5149,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}