{"id":88743,"date":"2015-05-06T14:49:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T12:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=88743"},"modified":"2015-05-06T14:49:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T12:49:25","slug":"international-no-diet-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2015\/05\/06\/international-no-diet-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International No Diet Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International No Diet Day (INDD) is celebrated on May 06 each year.<\/p>\n<p>This day marks an annual celebration of body acceptance and diversity, and is also dedicated to promoting a healthy life style and raise awareness of the dangers and futility of dieting.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The symbol of the No Diet Day is a blue ribbon, similar to the red ribbon of the World AIDS Day.<\/p>\n<p>International No Diet Day was created by Mary Evans Young in 1992, Mary is the director of the British group &#8220;Diet Breakers&#8221;.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>After personally experiencing anorexia, she worked to help people appreciate themselves for what they are, and to appreciate the body they have.<\/p>\n<p>There are several goals to the INDD:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Celebrate the beauty and diversity of ALL our natural sizes &amp; shapes;<\/li>\n<li>Declare a personal one-day moratorium on diet\/weight obsession;<\/li>\n<li>Learn the facts about weight-loss dieting, health, and body size;<\/li>\n<li>Recognize how dieting perpetuates violence against women;<\/li>\n<li>Honor the victims of eating disorders and weight-loss surgery;<\/li>\n<li>Help end weight discrimination, sizism and fatphobia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What will you be eating this INDD?<\/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='ef9e61f40a16debff9e117b3ba400370'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn to love the body you have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":77227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,7325,7326,2730],"class_list":["post-88743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-healthy-eating","tag-international-no-diet-day","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Healthy eating","International No Diet Day","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88743","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=88743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}