{"id":118634,"date":"2018-11-13T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T15:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=118634"},"modified":"2018-11-13T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T15:40:28","slug":"heart-society-says-obesity-is-a-health-epidemic-in-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/11\/13\/heart-society-says-obesity-is-a-health-epidemic-in-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart society says obesity is a health epidemic in DR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-118593\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Obesity-The-Blue-Diamond-Gallery-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>The World Health Organization says that 60% of the Dominican population is overweight. The Dominican Society of Cardiology is alerting to the health consequences on occasion of the Global Obesity Day. The physicians say obesity is a global epidemic that is curtailing the emotional and physical well-being of too many in the Dominican Republic. Dr. Claudia Almonte, president of the Dominican heart society said most of the patients 15-59 years old they are seeing are overweight.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2018\/11\/12\/destacado\/el-60-poblacion-de-rd-se-encuentra-en-sobrepeso\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Caribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13 November 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization says that 60% of the Dominican population is overweight. The Dominican Society of Cardiology is alerting to the health consequences on occasion of the Global Obesity Day. The physicians say obesity is a global epidemic that is curtailing the emotional and physical well-being of too many in the Dominican Republic. Dr. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/11\/13\/heart-society-says-obesity-is-a-health-epidemic-in-dr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}