{"id":143666,"date":"2018-01-04T02:28:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T07:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=143666"},"modified":"2018-01-04T02:39:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T07:39:18","slug":"after-the-holiday-binge-eating-try-fasting-says-health-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/04\/after-the-holiday-binge-eating-try-fasting-says-health-official\/","title":{"rendered":"After the holiday binge eating, try fasting, says health official"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_143670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143670\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/buffet-2953875_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143670\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/buffet-2953875_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"(Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/buffet-2953875_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/buffet-2953875_960_720-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/buffet-2953875_960_720-768x487.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everything else served during all those holiday dinner\u00a0parties (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Time to put the brakes on eating.<\/p>\n<p>After gorging on hamon, queso de bola, pasta, cakes and everything else served during all those holiday dinner parties, give your bodies some sort of a break by eating healthy and exercising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd going on a fast,\u201d Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary Gerardo Bayugo said in a chance interview with the media on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Through fasting, one gives his\/her body&#8217;s digestive system some time to rest and recuperate from the massive intake of food that it experienced during the Yuletide season, Bayugo said.<\/p>\n<p>Fasting once a week would be a good start, he said, adding that the advice stems from their observation of a rise in hypertension and heart attacks during the Christmas and New Year festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Bayugo said that while they do not have exact figures, &#8220;anecdotal statements&#8221; made by doctors and hospitals they have visited show that a lot of patients are being rushed to hospitals or are scheduling consultations \u2013 often due to excessive eating during the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many are saying, especially private practitioners, that there is a rise in the number of people who are making consultations, as well as cases of stroke, during the holiday season,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaghinay-hinay na tayo para di tayo masama sa mga statistics (Let\u2019s slow down before we become part of the statistics),\u201d Bayugo said. (PNA\/ Photo courtesy of Benj Bondoc)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Time to put the brakes on eating. After gorging on hamon, queso de bola, pasta, cakes and everything &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":143670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[41662,3693,11031,37183,41660,14548,41663,19656,39679,41661],"class_list":["post-143666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-cakes","tag-department-of-health-2","tag-exercise","tag-gerardo-bayugo","tag-hamon","tag-heart-attack","tag-holiday-dinner","tag-hypertension","tag-pasta","tag-queso-de-bola","mauthors-leilani-junio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}