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Thread ID: 18715 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2005-06-18
2005-06-18 17:39 | User Profile
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050618/hl_afp/healthchinaobesity[/url]
[SIZE=5]At least 200 million Chinese to be obese in 10 years [/SIZE]
BEIJING (AFP) - At least 200 million people in China will suffer from obesity within 10 years if current trends spurred by unhealthy lifestyles continue.
[B]China currently has 90 million obese citizens whose weight is more than 20 percent in excess of their accepted level, said the Information Times, citing medical experts.
Among these, trends among youths were most disturbing, it added.
Ten percent of Chinese children were obese with the number increasing by eight percent annually, Chen Chaogang, a leading doctor at the hospital attached in Zhongshan University in southern Guangdong province, told the newspaper.[/B]
High fat fast-food diets and round-the-clock snacking were to blame, it said, adding Chinese had happily adopted more sedentary lifestyles centred around the television, computer and automobile.
Recent research has highlighted significant differences in China between regions and the sexes.
Overweight and metabolic syndrome were higher among people in northern China than in the south, among urban residents rather than country-dwellers and among women more than among men, according to a study published earlier this year in the medical journal the Lancet.
Although obesity in China largely comes from unhealthy lifestyles, genetic factors were responsible for 16 percent of China's obese, the Information Daily said.
2005-06-18 18:07 | User Profile
I have noticed that the more "westernise" a country becomes the more screw up they are.
Japan is a very good example because now the kids are not only getting fatter but also failing in school and are rebelling more against their parents.
And now the latest fad is for the older generation of men to expend a overwelming ammount of money in order to look good. Now they even have speciallity magazines dedicated to them with names like "Uome" Men and so on.
They have their own stores where they can spend their money with no women or kids around and where good looking ladies will tend to their every needs.
2005-06-18 19:27 | User Profile
I guess we won't be able to tell our children "Clean your plate, there are kids starving China."
2005-06-18 19:33 | User Profile
SUM TING WONG
2005-06-18 23:59 | User Profile
HH, that's a classic! :lol:
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker]I guess we won't be able to tell our children "Clean your plate, there are kids starving China."[/QUOTE]
2005-06-21 04:44 | User Profile
Beats the Mao glory days of famine and melting down pots and pans to make crappy metal tools.
Maybe I should invest in diet pills with Chinese Instructions.
[QUOTE=Petr][url="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050618/hl_afp/healthchinaobesity"]http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050618/hl_afp/healthchinaobesity[/url]
[size=5]At least 200 million Chinese to be obese in 10 years [/size]
BEIJING (AFP) - At least 200 million people in China will suffer from obesity within 10 years if current trends spurred by unhealthy lifestyles continue.
China currently has 90 million obese citizens whose weight is more than 20 percent in excess of their accepted level, said the Information Times, citing medical experts.
Among these, trends among youths were most disturbing, it added.
Ten percent of Chinese children were obese with the number increasing by eight percent annually, Chen Chaogang, a leading doctor at the hospital attached in Zhongshan University in southern Guangdong province, told the newspaper.
High fat fast-food diets and round-the-clock snacking were to blame, it said, adding Chinese had happily adopted more sedentary lifestyles centred around the television, computer and automobile.
Recent research has highlighted significant differences in China between regions and the sexes.
Overweight and metabolic syndrome were higher among people in northern China than in the south, among urban residents rather than country-dwellers and among women more than among men, according to a study published earlier this year in the medical journal the Lancet.
Although obesity in China largely comes from unhealthy lifestyles, genetic factors were responsible for 16 percent of China's obese, the Information Daily said.[/QUOTE]