{"id":70975,"date":"2014-10-16T11:59:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T09:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=70975"},"modified":"2014-10-16T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T09:59:04","slug":"eating-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/16\/eating-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you eating right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity, poor nutrition and the associated development of lifestyle diseases continue to plague the majority of South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that unhealthy food choices, growing \u2018fast-food culture\u2019 and lack of education relating to healthy nutritional principles are factors which undoubtedly contribute to these staggering obesity rates.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In order to address these alarming statistics and to promote healthier eating and lifestyle habits, The Department of Health and its partners introduced the National Nutrition Week fifteen years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The event has become a permanent fixture in the South African Health Calendar and serves as an important public health intervention.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>This year\u2019s National Nutrition Week runs from 9 to 15 October.<\/p>\n<p>Do you feel you are making the right choices with your diet?<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='dfe2d15fc5e10a3f64f3688e207975b2'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Nutrition Week celebrated from October 9 to 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":70977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1083,1106,979,969,2730,5205],"class_list":["post-70975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-food","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-national-nutrition-week"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","food","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","National Nutrition Week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}