The problem of childhood obesity stretches far and wide, reaching all the way to China. The Chinese National Task Force on Childhood Obesity has found that one in five Chinese children are overweight, and more than 7 percent are obese.
"The Chinese experts looked at 80,000 children from 11 major cities, and found an increase of 156 percent in the numbers of obese children between 1996 and 2006. Meanwhile, the number of overweight children grew 52 percent."
Unfortunately, an encroaching Western lifestyle is partially to blame for the increase. Since the country opened economically in the 1970s, people have begun making more money, buying more high-fat foods, and becoming more sedentary. Source: The Age
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