{"id":445,"date":"2009-06-20T09:46:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T13:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2009-09-16T21:23:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T01:23:30","slug":"its-not-healthy-to-be-too-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/its-not-healthy-to-be-too-thin\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Healthy to Be Too Thin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An attempt to maintain a lower-than-normal weight triggers emotional eating and eating disorders in millions of people. Being very thin is not healthy, which suggests it&#8217;s not normal or natural. From an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=CNG.c7aaeb7940626693fa418a1eab2291f6.81&#038;show_article=1\n\">article about a new Japanese study<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;People who are a little overweight at age 40 live six to seven years longer than very thin people, whose average life expectancy was shorter by some five years than that of obese people, the study found.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We found skinny people run the highest risk,&#8221; said Shinichi Kuriyama, an associate professor at Tohoku University&#8217;s Graduate School of Medicine who worked on the long-term study of middle-aged and elderly people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is only the latest in many studies to show this result.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence suggests that our normal, healthiest weight may be somewhat higher than what the weight tables say it should be. If people could accept their natural, normal weight as beautiful and healthy, it would solve many problems. I&#8217;m not talking about being very fat, just a little fatter than the culture around us says we should be.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts? Comments? I&#8217;d love to hear them.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attempt to maintain a lower-than-normal weight triggers emotional eating and eating disorders in millions of people. Being very thin is not healthy, which suggests it&#8217;s not normal or natural. From an article about a new Japanese study: &#8220;People who are a little overweight at age 40 live six to &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}