{"id":2900,"date":"2024-07-08T21:25:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/its-time-to-rethink-our-attitude-toward-obesity-academic-argues\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T21:25:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:25:50","slug":"its-time-to-rethink-our-attitude-toward-obesity-academic-argues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/its-time-to-rethink-our-attitude-toward-obesity-academic-argues\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to rethink our attitude toward obesity, academic argues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Pixabay from Pexels Prejudice against fat people is endemic in our society and public health initiatives aimed at reducing obesity have only worsened the problem, according to a U.S. academic. In her new book, &#8220;Why It&#8217;s OK To Be Fat,&#8221; Rekha Nath, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama, argues for a paradigm shift in how society approaches fatness. According to Nath, society must stop approaching fatness as a trait to rid the population of, and instead fatness should be approached through the lens of social <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/its-time-to-rethink-our-attitude-toward-obesity-academic-argues\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Pixabay from Pexels Prejudice against fat people is endemic in our society and public health initiatives aimed at reducing obesity have only worsened the problem, according to a U.S. academic. In her new book, &#8220;Why It&#8217;s OK To Be Fat,&#8221; Rekha Nath, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama, argues for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}