{"id":1159,"date":"2008-09-03T12:03:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T17:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/obesity-may-be-all-in-the-head\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T17:04:03","slug":"obesity-may-be-all-in-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/obesity-may-be-all-in-the-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Obesity May Be All in the Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity &#8211; it&#8217;s all in your mind! There may be some truth to that statement if researchers are correct in their findin<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/obesity.jpg\" alt=\"obesity\" align=\"right\" height=\"212\" width=\"137\" \/>gs. They discovered a brain chemical that may play a role in appetite and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/25-of-americans-are-obese\/\" title=\"obesity\" target=\"_blank\">obesity<\/a>, which could lead to new drugs to help people with weight issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking at a small part of what is really a large and complex puzzle,&#8221; says Dr. Jack Yanovski of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20080827\/hl_nm\/obesity_brain_dc\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Obesity in the Brain\">Here&#8217;s more<\/a> on the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity &#8211; it&#8217;s all in your mind! There may be some truth to that statement if researchers are correct in their findings. They discovered a brain chemical that may play a role in appetite and obesity, which could lead to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/obesity-may-be-all-in-the-head\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[8272,31,92],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-dr-jack-yanovski","tag-health-news","tag-obesity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}