{"id":19723,"date":"2020-06-26T16:13:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T07:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/26\/sumos-heaviest-ever-wrestler-urges-others-to-keep-eating-habits-in-check"},"modified":"2020-06-26T16:13:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T07:13:39","slug":"sumos-heaviest-ever-wrestler-urges-others-to-keep-eating-habits-in-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19723","title":{"rendered":"Sumo&#8217;s heaviest ever wrestler urges others to keep eating habits in check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u014crora, who hit 292kg before he retired, warns wrestlers need to care of themselves after death of colleague from coronavirus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s sumo wrestlers should rein in their enormous appetites and take better care of their health. The advice comes not from doctors or nutritionists, but from a former wrestler who weighed more than any other man in the sport\u2019s long history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never easy to stay healthy as long as you\u2019re living the life of a sumo wrestler,\u201d \u014crora, a retired professional wrestler, or <em>rikishi<\/em>, said in a recent interview with the Asahi Shimbun, soon after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/may\/13\/shobushi-kiyotaka-suetake-sumo-wrestler-dies-covid-19-coronavirus-japan\">young wrestler died<\/a> after contracting coronavirus. \u201cYou are the only person that can take care of yourself. Nobody in your sumo stable cares about you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/26\/sumos-heaviest-ever-wrestler-urges-others-to-keep-eating-habits-in-check\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u014crora, who hit 292kg before he retired, warns wrestlers need to care of themselves after death of colleague from coronavirusJapan\u2019s sumo wrestlers should rein in their enormous appetites and take better care of their health. The advice comes not from d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,203,1483,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-sport","category-sumo-wrestling","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19724,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19723\/revisions\/19724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}