{"id":109386,"date":"2017-10-21T09:56:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T04:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=109386"},"modified":"2017-10-21T09:56:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T04:26:55","slug":"weight-loss-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/weight-loss-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight loss course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A university in eastern China is offering a weight-loss course to raise awareness about the issues due to obesity, in the campus. The year-long course is only available to those with a Body Mass Index (BMI) higher than 28.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around fifty students have enrolled in the program at Nanjing Agriculture University in Jiangsu province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Students are encouraged to lose weight through a combination of regular exercise and diet control during the span of 12 months of the course. Sixty percent of student\u2019s grade will be decided on how much weight they lose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109387 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/930402-Untitled-1438432714-884-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Weight loss course\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The university began the program after realizing that their students are gaining heavier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nearly 13 percent of their students in the first and second year were overweight, Jiangsu Television reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A university in eastern China is offering a weight-loss course to raise awareness about the issues due to obesity, in the campus. The year-long course is only available to those with a Body Mass Index (BMI) higher than 28. Around fifty students have enrolled in the program at Nanjing Agriculture University in Jiangsu province. Students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29598,2],"tags":[38270,13553,55970,55973,37269,55972,8874,55971],"class_list":["post-109386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-top-stories","tag-bmi","tag-body-mass-index","tag-eastern-china","tag-nanjing-agriculture-university","tag-obesity","tag-raise-awareness","tag-university","tag-weight-loss-course"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/BMI-Infographic-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}