{"id":12381,"date":"2016-02-04T17:58:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T17:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=12381"},"modified":"2016-02-04T17:58:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T17:58:59","slug":"akshay-kumar-joins-hands-with-who-for-world-health-day-campaign-to-raise-awareness-of-diabetes-endemic-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/04\/akshay-kumar-joins-hands-with-who-for-world-health-day-campaign-to-raise-awareness-of-diabetes-endemic-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Akshay Kumar joins hands with WHO for World Health Day Campaign to Raise Awareness of Diabetes Endemic in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known for being an advocate of Good Health and Fitness, international film megastar <strong>Akshay Kumar<\/strong> will be featuring in a video campaign by WHO (World Health Organisation) to raise awareness about Diabetes in India \u2013 the Diabetic capital of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Diabetes is part of the World Health Organisation&#8217;s mission to prevent diabetes whenever possible, encourage prevention and to raise awareness.<\/p>\n<p>The Maharashtra Government approached Akshay Kumar to appear in the video, which will be directed by Rajkumar Hirani and released on World Health Day on April 7th.<\/p>\n<p>Akshay Kumar and Rajkumar Hirani have been discussing ideas for the video, which is expected to be shot this week in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>An initiative by the state government, the video will be released online on the YouTube channel, Being Indian. Sanjay Deshmukh, Additional Municipal Commissioner (Western Suburbs), will also be a part of the video<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Previously, Akshay Kumar supported the UN\u2019s Global Goals campaign advocating the importance of Global Goal No 3 <strong>\u2018Good Health and Well-Being\u2019. <\/strong>He also recently extended his support for Max Bupa Walk for Health, which aims to inspire thousands of families to walk more to enhance their overall health and well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known for being an advocate of Good Health and Fitness, international film megastar Akshay Kumar will be featuring in a video campaign by WHO (World Health Organisation) to raise awareness about Diabetes in India \u2013 the Diabetic capital of the world. Diabetes is part of the World Health Organisation&#8217;s mission to prevent diabetes whenever possible, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,44,39],"tags":[163,165,166,164],"class_list":["post-12381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desixpress","category-health","category-international-news","tag-akshay-kumar","tag-diabetes","tag-who","tag-world-health-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}