{"id":5907,"date":"2006-02-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/02\/18\/2006-02-18-yoga-games-to-be-mandatory-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2006-02-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-18T12:00:00","slug":"2006-02-18-yoga-games-to-be-mandatory-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/02\/18\/2006-02-18-yoga-games-to-be-mandatory-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga Games To Be Mandatory in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.webindia123.com\/news\/showdetails.asp?id=252681&#038;cat=Health\">news.webindia123.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 17, 2006: Yoga and physical activities will be made mandatory in schools to prevent the onset of lifestyle-related illnesses among the younger generation, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said here Friday. &#8220;Non-communicable diseases like heart attacks, diabetes and cancer are slowly affecting the young age group and lack of physical activity is definitely one of the main reasons,&#8221; Ramadoss said. &#8220;More play periods in schools would help students to shed extra calories and develop their immune system,&#8221; he told a symposium on cardiovascular diseases, stroke and diabetes at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here. &#8220;Apart from regular recess time, our ministry in collaboration with the human resource development ministry is planning to make play classes mandatory five days a week.&#8221; A direction to this effect would be sent to all schools in two to three months. Ramadoss said yoga, too, would be made mandatory in schools. &#8220;Both these initiatives will help in reducing stress among students and help them lead a healthy life. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>news.webindia123.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 17, 2006: Yoga and physical activities will be made mandatory in schools to prevent the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}