{"id":6506,"date":"2014-02-19T21:57:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2019-03-20T17:19:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T23:19:35","slug":"health-concerns-related-to-equine-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/equine-digestion\/health-concerns-related-to-equine-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Concerns Related to Equine Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity is a serious health condition, but, unfortunately, many horse owners still look at a fat pony and think how cute it is, or look at a fat horse and compliment its big bone. However, science has now shown that adipose tissue (body fat) is more than merely a storage organ for fat (and therefore calories). It is an active tissue that secretes hormones and inflammatory proteins that can greatly affect an animal\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/33375\/health-concerns-related-to-equine-obesity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read complete article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity is a serious health condition, but, unfortunately, many horse owners still look at a fat pony and think how cute it is, or look at a fat horse and compliment its big bone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,56,70,66,67,72,77,74,68,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-condition","category-equine-digestion","category-feeding-fats","category-grains","category-hay","category-horse-treats","category-obesity","category-ulcers","category-vitamins-and-minerals","category-water-and-electrolytes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8333,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions\/8333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}