{"id":5527,"date":"2015-10-08T19:43:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T19:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyonhealth.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/perceived-discrimination-linked-to-smoking-and-poor-diet\/"},"modified":"2015-10-08T19:43:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T19:43:32","slug":"perceived-discrimination-linked-to-smoking-and-poor-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/08\/perceived-discrimination-linked-to-smoking-and-poor-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Perceived discrimination linked to smoking and poor diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/perceived-discrimination-linked-smoking-poor-diet-180344634.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-08T182023Z_1_LYNXNPEB9713A_RTROPTP_2_AUSTRALIA-FOOD.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"86\" alt=\"A man crosses a main road as pedestrians carrying food walk along the footpath in central Sydney, Australia\" align=\"left\" title=\"A man crosses a main road as pedestrians carrying food walk along the footpath in central Sydney, Australia\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) &#8211; Feeling like the target of discrimination may increase a person\u2019s odds of harmful behaviors like smoking, eating fatty foods and getting less sleep, a study of African-Americans suggests. Researchers examined the connection between discrimination and these unhealthy habits among almost 5,000 African-American residents of the Jackson, Mississippi metropolitan area. \u201cWe conducted this particular analysis to understand the extent to which multiple measures of perceived discrimination were associated with types of behaviors that are known to be risk factors for cardiovascular disease in African-Americans,\u201d lead study author Mario Sims, a researcher with the Jackson Heart Study and the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, said by email.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) &#8211; Feeling like the target of discrimination may increase a person\u2019s odds of harmful behaviors like smoking, eating fatty foods and getting less sleep, a study of African-Americans suggests. Researchers examined the connection between discrimination and these unhealthy habits among almost 5,000 African-American residents of the Jackson, Mississippi metropolitan area. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-5527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-08T182023Z_1_LYNXNPEB9713A_RTROPTP_2_AUSTRALIA-FOOD.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}