{"id":155685,"date":"2015-06-01T16:43:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=155685"},"modified":"2015-06-01T16:43:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T16:43:16","slug":"obesity-new-smoking-nhs-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obesity-new-smoking-nhs-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Obesity is the new smoking: NHS England"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>NHS England\u2019s chief executive Simon Steven has warned parents and teachers against high sugar consumption and emphasized the need to tackle overeating with the same passion as teen pregnancy, drink driving and smoking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stevens said public bodies and educators must now turn towards the number one priority for public health, stating: \u201cWe\u2019ve done very well in terms of cutting smoking and teenage pregnancy and drink driving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the new smoking is obesity. One in five cancer deaths is now caused by obesity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stevens said he wanted to reach out to \u201cresponsible retailers, food producers [who] can smell the coffee here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne in three of our teenagers are drinking high-energy, sugary drinks,\u201d he said. \u201cI do think we\u2019re going to need reformulation to take sugar out of foods, in the same way that successfully that\u2019s happened with salt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/01\/413830\/UK-NHS-England-obesity\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHS England\u2019s chief executive Simon Steven has warned parents and teachers against high sugar consumption and emphasized the need to tackle overeating with the same passion as teen pregnancy, drink driving and smoking. Stevens said public bodies and educators must now turn towards the number one priority for public health, stating: \u201cWe\u2019ve done very well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-155685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}