{"id":1037,"date":"2013-06-13T02:22:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T02:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2013-06-13T02:22:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T02:22:34","slug":"call-for-rethink-on-childhood-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2013\/06\/13\/call-for-rethink-on-childhood-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for rethink on childhood obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia needs to rethink its approach to treating childhood obesity because efforts over the past decade have failed, says a leading paediatrician.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ninemsn.com.au\/health\/2013\/06\/11\/00\/14\/call-for-rethink-on-childhood-obesity\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>, Professor Melissa Wake says that we are going to need public health measures in much the same way as smoking and road accidents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Up till now most of our approaches to treating childhood obesity have been around straightforward lifestyle counselling. Something different is needed,\u201d says Melissa.<\/p>\n<p>Recent research results published by Melissa and her team from the Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute (MCRI) in the British Medical Journal have revealed a new opportunity to help pinpoint what makes it possible for children to lose weight.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa heads the MCRI Community Child Health Group, and is Director of Research and Associate Director of the Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital Centre for Community Child Health.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ninemsn.com.au\/health\/2013\/06\/11\/00\/14\/call-for-rethink-on-childhood-obesity\" target=\"_blank\">Read more in the ninemsn article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia needs to rethink its approach to treating childhood obesity because efforts over the past decade have failed, says a leading paediatrician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5935,5937,5939],"tags":[5945,5943,5944],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-and-papers","category-media","category-research-and-programs","tag-childhood","tag-childhood-obesity","tag-obesity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}