Posted on 10/08/2016 7:24:37 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
China’s future is looking fatter, with the country on track to have the greatest number of overweight children aged five to 17.9 years by 2025, according to a report released by the World Obesity Federation.
If trends continued, the mainland was expected to have 48.5 million overweight children in 2025, more than the population of Spain, the study said.
That compared with a projected 17.3 million overweight children in India and 16.7 million in the United States.
The study said an estimated 1.5 million Chinese children would have impaired glucose tolerance while 4.6 million would have fatty liver disease, as well as other obesity-linked conditions like hypertension and diabetes by 2025.
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The federation study said that in all there would be 268 million overweight school-aged children worldwide by 2025, up from 223 million in 2013.
By 2025, up to 27.5 million children around the world would be affected by hypertension, 38 million would have fatty liver disease, 12.7 million would have impaired glucose tolerance and as many as four million would have type 2 diabetes, a disease that usually affects older age groups.
Soft drink and fatty food consumption have increased worldwide and children are becoming more sedentary
Tim Lobstein, World Obesity Federation
“Soft drink and fatty food consumption have increased worldwide and children are becoming more sedentary,” Tim Lobstein, the report’s author and the federation’s head of policy, said.
“Junk food advertising continues to influence food choices, and increasing numbers of families live on low incomes in urban environments – a recipe for weight gain.”
The report put China eighth on a list of 20 countries with the fastest increases in the prevalence of overweight children, with Vietnam, Azerbaijan and Serbia being the top three as of 2013.
Earlier this year, another study by researchers in Shandong found rapid increases in the prevalence of overweight and obese children and adolescents in the province’s rural areas between 1985 and 2014.
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That study, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, found the prevalence of overweight boys jumped from 0.74 per cent in 1985 to 16.35 per cent in 2014; and from 1.45 per cent to 13.91 per cent for girls.
The prevention of childhood obesity is a part of the China National Programme for Child Development (2011-2020) issued by the State Council in 2011.
Junk food advertising continues to influence food choices, and increasing numbers of families live on low incomes in urban environments – a recipe for weight gain
Tim Lobstein, World Obesity Federation
The document states that the authorities should improve training in the area for health workers and offer better education to parents about eating a balanced diet.
The World Obesity Federation report was based on data prepared by the Global Burden of Disease collaborative project for 2000 and 2013, a survey done by the World Health Organisation to measure the impacts of various health problems.
The conclusions were made assuming no policy interventions have proven effective at changing existing trends.
Seems to me that obesity is much easier to solve.
Notice that this "problem" emerged when they stopped having centrally-planned "Command Economy".
Send Moochelle over to solve the problem. *snort*
We’re is mooch?
[Soft drink and fatty food consumption have increased worldwide ]
Um, that would be sugar and carb consumption.
“The study said an estimated 1.5 million Chinese children would have impaired glucose tolerance while 4.6 million would have fatty liver disease, as well as other obesity-linked conditions like hypertension and diabetes by 2025.”
Excellent. In 2026 we strike! The Chinese Army will be a bunch of fat, lazy oafs by then, easily defeated! ;)
This problem emerged with their middle class, when they got the jobs shipped there from the West. I thought they still had central planning.
I’m sure smart phone use, aka less exercise, by the little commies contributes too.
Rice Council of America ad, 1967.
There were no Chinese starving under Communism. Capitalism? Once you’ve had a marshmallow it’s hard to be disciplined. Mexico is worse. Now tell that to Venezuela.
Now I’m really pissed about all the times my Mom conned me into eating my green beans.
The Obesity epidemic is always blamed on diet and lack of exercise, but if i recall as a kid, we all ate white bread , , white rice, drank real sugar soft drinks, more red meat than chicken or fish, ice cream , donuts, large candy bars were 10 cents, and we ate sugary cereals, potato chips, hot dogs, drank out of the hose but most everyone was thin and healthy. While its true , people were more active consider the average person only burns 250 calories running a whole mile , equavelent to only one Twinkie and as a kid we could eat a whole box. There has to be something in the water or food system that has changed in the US and now in China, I’m not buying the standard lack of “healthy” food and exercise explanation.
So today’s mom’s can use the old “eat your veggies because there’s staving children in China.”
I’ll be concerned when Ethiopians become obese.
Absolutely incredible! Seventy years ago when I was a kid at the dinner table THE FINGER WOULD POINT in my direction, and THE WORDS WOULD BE SAID. “Eat everything on your plate. There are starving children in China.”
....and now they are the fat Alberts.
I thought it was Japan that had the Sumo wrestlers. That Chinese baby looks like a future champ.
GM foods? Food processing, food technology, maybe? HFC People eat out more. Restaurant food is loaded with fat.
Maybe antibiotics , killed all the bacteria in the population good and bad ? China might now be using antibiotics even more than us both for personal use and live stock unregulated ?
Asians in general and chinese in particular look down on physical activity as something for the lower-class. For example, you're pathetic if you walked to the variety store instead of taking the car. Many parents ban their kids from doing any physical activity.
How do the Chinese fat Alberts say, “hey, hey, hey!” in Mandarin?
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