{"id":216,"date":"2008-11-12T04:47:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T08:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2023-11-23T23:35:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T04:35:35","slug":"emotional-health-and-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/emotional-health-and-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Health and Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headline in the Telegraph: <em>Tackling emotional health &#8216;key to solving obesity crisis&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the Mayo clinic, 75% of Britons are overweight. According to Dr. Colin Waine,    chairman of the National Obesity Forum, the problem is &#8220;even more serious than global warming.&#8221;\u00a0 (Whoa! Really?)<\/p>\n<p>U.K. Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced the Government\u2019s plans for a &#8220;lifestyle revolution,&#8221; including a suggestion to pay overweight parents to walk their children to school. (Imagine the response to such a suggestion in the U.S.!)<\/p>\n<p>Amazon offers more than 25,000 diet books (a fact that says more about our problems than it does about solution).<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Waine says, &#8220;Individuals eat because they are unhappy, and unhappiness makes them eat. <em>Until people have dealt with their emotional problems, they won\u2019t lose weight<\/em>, but many health and government professionals are happier to treat the end results, rather than the cause.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to author Deborah Bonser, &#8220;Being overweight is a symptom of what is wrong with our lives. We eat to take away emotional pain&#8230; If you don\u2019t love yourself, it is easy to overeat. It is also a response to a bad relationship, both personal and at work.\u00a0<em>I believe that 70 percent of people who are overweight are emotional eaters and suffer from stress<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Physician David Haslam, who specialises in treating obesity, says, &#8220;It is more likely to be    the result of trauma and stress. When people are upset, they raid the fridge to take the emotion away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although some disagree, a teacher insists that eating is an addiction: &#8220;It is much worse than any other addiction because food is legal and so easy to get hold of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>What can we do?\u00a0 Make emotional health a personal priority!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Original Source: telegraph.co.uk\/health\/3439724\/Tackling-emotional-health-key-to-solving-obesity-crisis.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headline in the Telegraph: Tackling emotional health &#8216;key to solving obesity crisis&#8217; According to the Mayo clinic, 75% of Britons are overweight. According to Dr. Colin Waine, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, the problem is &#8220;even more serious than global warming.&#8221;\u00a0 (Whoa! Really?) U.K. Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced the Government\u2019s plans for a\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/emotional-health-and-obesity\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[7,28,18],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldwide","tag-eating","tag-obesity","tag-stress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}