{"id":904,"date":"2009-04-10T20:24:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T20:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=904"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:41:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:41:27","slug":"how-beliefs-about-the-causes-of-obesity-affect-support-for-public-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":"How Beliefs about the Causes of Obesity Affect Support for Public Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research has found that an individual&#8217;s personal beliefs about the causes of weight problems are a reliable indicator of whether he or she will support public policies designed to combat the problem. The study surveyed 1,009 people on their views about the causes of obesity and their level of support for 16 policy responses, taking demographics, health characteristics and political attitudes into account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milbank.org\/quarterly\/8701feat.html\" target=_blank>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research has found that an individual&#8217;s personal beliefs about the causes of weight problems are a reliable indicator of whether he or she will support public policies designed to combat the problem. The study surveyed 1,009 people on their views about the causes of obesity and their level of support for 16 policy responses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,13,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904"}],"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=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4471,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/4471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}