{"id":1822,"date":"2008-10-01T19:34:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T19:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:44:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:44:13","slug":"more-exercise-needed-to-tackle-child-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1822","title":{"rendered":"More Exercise Needed To Tackle Child Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the beginning of International Walk to School month [1 &#8211; 31 October 2008], BMA Scotland has today (Wednesday 1 October) published a briefing paper highlighting the health and social benefits of encouraging children to have an active lifestyle. To get Scotland moving, the Scottish Government should:  1) Develop an effective strategy to encourage teenagers and young adults to take part in regular exercise  2) Encourage doctors to prescribe exercise for the overweight\/obese (e.g. reduced cost\/free access to local authority sports centres)  3) Improve access to subsidised sporting facilities for both children and parents. Easy access for those from lower socio-economic groups is particularly important  4) Take assertive action to improve communities and make them clean, safe and healthy for our children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/123659.php\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the beginning of International Walk to School month [1 &#8211; 31 October 2008], BMA Scotland has today (Wednesday 1 October) published a briefing paper highlighting the health and social benefits of encouraging children to have an active lifestyle. To get Scotland moving, the Scottish Government should: 1) Develop an effective strategy to encourage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822"}],"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=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5283,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/5283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}