{"id":91568,"date":"2019-06-03T08:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T15:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/obesity-might-accelerate-aging"},"modified":"2019-06-03T08:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T15:22:22","slug":"obesity-might-accelerate-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/obesity-might-accelerate-aging","title":{"rendered":"Obesity Might Accelerate Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/obesity-might-accelerate-aging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fendo.2019.00266\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new publication<\/a> take a look at the effects of obesity on aging and consider its impact in the context of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/aging-explained\/\">Hallmarks of Aging<\/a>, a popular theory that breaks down aging into nine distinct processes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The case for obesity accelerating aging<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Being overweight and carrying excessive amounts of visceral fat, a type of body fat that is stored in the abdominal cavity and surrounds a number of important internal organs, such as the liver, pancreas, and intestines, is known to increase the risk of age-related diseases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/obesity-might-accelerate-aging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers of a new publication take a look at the effects of obesity on aging and consider its impact in the context of the Hallmarks of Aging, a popular theory that breaks down aging into nine distinct processes. The case for obesity accelerating aging Being overweight and carrying excessive amounts of visceral fat, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}