{"id":752,"date":"2015-05-25T14:50:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T14:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/2015\/problems-in-treating-obesity-complexities-of-the-ghrelin-system\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T09:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:20:57","slug":"problems-in-treating-obesity-complexities-of-the-ghrelin-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/2015\/problems-in-treating-obesity-complexities-of-the-ghrelin-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems in treating obesity: Complexities of the ghrelin system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Problems in treating obesity: Complexities of the ghrelin system\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>In Statistics Canada\u2019s most recent report on overweight and obesity in 2013, 18.8% of Canadians aged 18 or older were obese based on their body-mass index, while 41.9% of men and 27.7% of women were overweight [1]. We are all aware of these health conditions in Canada and much of the rest of the Western world. Beyond the health factors associated with obesity and overweight, strain is put on the social support system, medical costs rise, and quality of life goes down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the rest of&nbsp;Martin Wellman&#8217;s blog <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chaimcentre\/2015\/problems-in-treating-obesity-complexities-of-the-ghrelin-system\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Statistics Canada\u2019s most recent report on overweight and obesity in 2013, 18.8% of Canadians aged 18 or older were obese based on their body-mass index, while 41.9% of men and 27.7% of women were overweight [1]. We are all aware of these health conditions in Canada and much of the rest of the Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3829,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/3829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}