{"id":600,"date":"2009-12-09T23:26:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T04:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=600"},"modified":"2017-11-29T14:47:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:47:24","slug":"from-human-highlight-film-to-healthcare-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"From Human Highlight Film to Healthcare Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_602\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-602\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-602\" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"Dominique Wilkins\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dom-wilkins-fowlerhigh5.jpg\" alt=\"dom-wilkins-fowlerhigh5\" width=\"580\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dom-wilkins-fowlerhigh5.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dom-wilkins-fowlerhigh5-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominique Wilkins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Retired NBA player Dominique Wilkins visited Syracuse&#8217;s Fowler High School today to talk about diabetes management and prevention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many people in here have a family member who has diabetes, &#8221; Wilkins asked. Almost every hand went up in an auditorium of a few hundred.<\/p>\n<p>He was diagnosed with Type II diabetes one year after he retired from playing in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkins, who is most known for his thunderous dunks, is currently traveling the nation as a Diabetes Awareness Ambassador for\u00a0Novo Nordisk.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_605\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-605\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-605 \" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"Dominique Wilkins\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dom-wilkins-fowlerhigh21.jpg\" alt=\"Dominique Wilkins\" width=\"508\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dom-wilkins-fowlerhigh21.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dom-wilkins-fowlerhigh21-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominique Wilkins at Fowler High<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He\u00a0stressed he importance of establishing healthy eating habits, regular exercise\u00a0and knowing your family health history.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief discussion about health Wilkins also fielded various questions about his playing days and the current state of the league&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is better Kobe or Lebron<\/strong>: Kobe is the most complete player in the league.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who was your idol<\/strong>: Julius &#8220;Dr. J&#8221; Erving. The first time I played against him he scored 38 on me and I wasn&#8217;t upset.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Was Larry Bird overrated<\/strong>: &#8220;No way. Larry Bird was underrated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is the best ever<\/strong>: &#8220;Michael (Jordan). He won three championships then retired, then came back and won three more. No one ever did that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired NBA player Dominique Wilkins visited Syracuse&#8217;s Fowler High School today to talk about diabetes management and prevention. &#8220;How many people in here have a family member who has diabetes, &#8221; Wilkins asked. Almost every hand went up in an auditorium of a few hundred. He was diagnosed with Type II diabetes one year after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[104,19],"tags":[706,709,707,712,15,708,535,710,711,566,698],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22887,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/22887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}