[Mrs. Don-o]

For most of history, wasn't the problem in China starvation?

Seems to me that obesity is much easier to solve.

Notice that this "problem" emerged when they stopped having centrally-planned "Command Economy".

[fieldmarshaldj]

Send Moochelle over to solve the problem. *snort*

[Nifster]

We’re is mooch?

[headstamp 2]

[Soft drink and fatty food consumption have increased worldwide ]

Um, that would be sugar and carb consumption.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“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! ;)

[kearnyirish2]

This problem emerged with their middle class, when they got the jobs shipped there from the West. I thought they still had central planning.

[PROCON]

I’m sure smart phone use, aka less exercise, by the little commies contributes too.

[Ken H]

Rice Council of America ad, 1967.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Now I’m really pissed about all the times my Mom conned me into eating my green beans.

[seastay]

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.

[bgill]

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.

[rockinqsranch]

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.

[Trumpet 1]

I thought it was Japan that had the Sumo wrestlers. That Chinese baby looks like a future champ.

[blam]

I used to have to eat everything on my plate because, "people in China are starving."

[Jack Hydrazine]

China frets over expanding obesity (200 M obese citizens in 10 yrs)
18JUN2005
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1425640/posts