{"id":5955,"date":"2015-11-23T22:36:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/23\/maine-proposes-ban-on-junk-food-purchases-with-food-stamps\/"},"modified":"2015-11-23T22:36:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:36:20","slug":"maine-proposes-ban-on-junk-food-purchases-with-food-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/23\/maine-proposes-ban-on-junk-food-purchases-with-food-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine proposes ban on junk food purchases with food stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/maine-proposes-ban-junk-food-purchases-food-stamps-211836942--sector.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015-11-23T213338Z_1_LYNXMPEBAM18E_RTROPTP_2_USA.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"86\" alt=\"A boy holds a hamburger made with a doughnut bun at the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona\" align=\"left\" title=\"A boy holds a hamburger made with a doughnut bun at the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>By Dave Sherwood AUGUSTA, Maine (Reuters) \u2013 Maine\u2019s top health official on Monday proposed banning the purchase of soda and candy under the federal aid program known as food stamps, describing the move as needed to counter an \u201calarming epidemic of obesity\u201d among the state\u2019s poor. In their formal request to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which must approve any change in rules related to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, state officials said the shift would help control the rising costs of healthcare for overweight, low-income patients. A 2012 study by a University of Maine researcher put the annual medical costs of obesity in Maine at $452.7 million.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dave Sherwood AUGUSTA, Maine (Reuters) \u2013 Maine\u2019s top health official on Monday proposed banning the purchase of soda and candy under the federal aid program known as food stamps, describing the move as needed to counter an \u201calarming epidemic of obesity\u201d among the state\u2019s poor. In their formal request to the U.S. Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5956,"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-5955","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:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015-11-23T213338Z_1_LYNXMPEBAM18E_RTROPTP_2_USA.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}