{"id":422,"date":"2006-01-09T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/01\/live-fat-die-young\/"},"modified":"2006-01-09T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T08:46:00","slug":"live-fat-die-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/01\/live-fat-die-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Fat, Die Young"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obese ‘don’t want to lose weight’ says this plump BBC headline.<\/a> “More than half of the 4,000 people polled were overweight or obese, but 26% of them said they did not want to lose weight.” It goes on to list various health advice, and the dangers associated with obesity: “Obesity is linked with an increased risk of bowel, kidney, oesophageal and stomach cancers, as well as cancer of the womb and breast cancer in post-menopausal women.”<\/p>\n

I can see more headlines:<\/p>\n

Alcoholics ‘want to keep drinking’ <\/p>\n

Bigots ‘convinced of own rectitude’<\/p>\n

Old people ‘like to keep warm’<\/p>\n

Scientists ‘shocked at human condition’<\/font><\/p>\n

For some unknown and possibly chubby reason, this headline makes me deliriously happy. I know that it is not a politically correct reaction and is indeed exposing surrealist tendencies, but I keep on rolling around on the floor, chuckling, slapping my belly and yelling “chocolate! chips! fried eggs!”<\/p>\n

Try it – I know you’ll like it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obese ‘don’t want to lose weight’ says this plump BBC headline. “More than half of the 4,000 people polled were overweight or obese, but 26% of them said they did not want to lose weight.” It goes on to list various health advice, and the dangers associated with obesity: “Obesity is linked with an increased […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}