{"id":8732,"date":"2016-12-15T07:03:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T07:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/japans-pudgy-pop-stars-take-aim-at-obesity-prejudice\/"},"modified":"2016-12-15T07:03:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T07:03:48","slug":"japans-pudgy-pop-stars-take-aim-at-obesity-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/15\/japans-pudgy-pop-stars-take-aim-at-obesity-prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#039;s pudgy pop stars take aim at obesity prejudice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/japans-pudgy-pop-stars-aim-obesity-prejudice-023151760.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-15T023151Z_1_LYNXMPECBE03W_RTROPTP_2_MUSIC-JAPAN-POTTYA.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"86\" alt=\"Members of Pottya perform at a live theatre in Tokyo\" align=\"left\" title=\"Members of Pottya perform at a live theatre in Tokyo\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>By Kwiyeon Ha TOKYO (Reuters) &#8211; Competition is cutthroat among Japan&#8217;s thousands of pop idol wannabes, but a unique concept is winning fame for a band of &#8220;chubby&#8221; girls deploying their cheeky cuteness to combat prejudices against obesity. Despite one of the lowest rates of obesity in the developed world, Japan has a growing number of underweight young women, who rely on excessive dieting to satisfy society&#8217;s emphasis on being slim. Enter &#8220;Pottya&#8221;, a pop group named after a slang word for chubby and consisting of four young women who are not especially hefty to Western eyes, but well above average weight in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kwiyeon Ha TOKYO (Reuters) &#8211; Competition is cutthroat among Japan&#8217;s thousands of pop idol wannabes, but a unique concept is winning fame for a band of &#8220;chubby&#8221; girls deploying their cheeky cuteness to combat prejudices against obesity. Despite one of the lowest rates of obesity in the developed world, Japan has a growing number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-8732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-15T023151Z_1_LYNXMPECBE03W_RTROPTP_2_MUSIC-JAPAN-POTTYA.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}