Tri-City/Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Daily News Overweight or obese: study
08/21/2006 Nearly one in every five people in China are overweight or obese and the problem is getting worse among children, especially boys, according to a study.
The study found that 10 million children from the ages of seven to 18 were overweight in 2000, up 28 times from 1985. Four million children were obese in that age group in 2000, four times more than 1985. "China was once considered to have one of the leanest populations, but it is the fast catching up with the West in terms of the prevalence of overweight and obesity," the study said. |