{"id":231587,"date":"2010-01-26T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001278"},"modified":"2010-01-26T06:55:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T11:55:43","slug":"whole-foods-finds-way-to-make-overweight-folk-feel-even-more-self-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/231587","title":{"rendered":"Whole Foods Finds Way To Make Overweight Folk Feel Even More Self-Conscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/wholefoods-thumb-158x118-36344.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Whole Foods is <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5456561\/weigh-less-pay-less-whole-foods-offers-discount-based-on-bmi\">offering bigger discounts<\/a> &#8212; from the current 20 percent to 30 percent &#8212; to employees with a low body mass index, as well as non-nicotine use, low cholesterol and blood pressure, Jezebel reports. <\/p>\n<p>From a letter from Whole Foods CEO John Mackey:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We understand these aren&#8217;t perfect bio-markers to ensure overall health, but they do have the virtues of still being relatively good, easy to measure and not too expensive to monitor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Translation: &#8220;Eat less, fatties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5456561\/weigh-less-pay-less-whole-foods-offers-discount-based-on-bmi\">Weigh Less, Pay Less: Whole Foods Offers Discount Based On BMI<\/a> [Jezebel] <br \/>\n<i>(Thanks, Anna!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whole Foods is offering bigger discounts &#8212; from the current 20 percent to 30 percent &#8212; to employees with a low body mass index, as well as non-nicotine use, low cholesterol and blood pressure, Jezebel reports. From a letter from Whole Foods CEO John Mackey: We understand these aren&#8217;t perfect bio-markers to ensure overall health, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}