{"id":105331,"date":"2022-05-14T06:42:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T04:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=105331"},"modified":"2022-05-14T06:42:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T04:42:17","slug":"morbid-obesity-also-occurred-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/morbid-obesity-also-occurred-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Morbid obesity also occurred in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Morbid <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/guest-posts\/obesity-in-antiquity\/\">obesity<\/a><\/b>, considered a modern &#8220;epidemic&#8221;, also occurred naturally in ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>. Galen, a Roman physician of Greek origin from the 2nd century CE, undertook the treatment of obesity. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He classified overweight people as obese (Greek <em>pachis<\/em>), overweight (Greek <em>efsarkos<\/em>) and very obese (Greek <em>polysarkos<\/em>). A person <em>polysarkos<\/em> has too much fat in his opinion and, as he pointed out in his work &#8220;De methodo medendi&#8221;, it is impossible not to sweat while walking, cannot reach the table due to excessive belly, has trouble breathing calmly, is unable to give birth to a child and is unable to take care of her own <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/hygiene-in-ancient-romans\/\">hygiene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Polysarkos<\/em> has been characterized as a person who has limited life possibilities and cannot function in a normal way. So it was morbid obesity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40081,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-105331","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/105331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/105331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=105331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}