Posted on 10/08/2016 7:24:37 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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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