Posted on 01/28/2024 4:39:10 AM PST by FarCenter
Nearly two in five children and adolescents in China are expected to be overweight or obese by 2030 if current trends continue, research has found. Experts called for urgent measures to counter the problem, including a 20% tax on sugar-sweetened drinks.
The findings, published last month in The Lancet Regional Health and written by researchers at the School of Public Health of Peking University and United Nations Children's Fund, said the rapid increase in child and adolescent obesity in China was having a significant health and economic impact.
Without intervention, China will face a lifetime economic impact of 218 trillion yuan ($31.6 trillion) due its current levels of child and adolescent obesity from 2025 to 2092, the study estimated.
The economic burden of overweight and obese children is often to be underestimated, as the health problems have yet to emerge, said Zhou Maigeng, deputy director of the National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Data on adult obesity has already raised the red flag. Without preventive measures, adult chronic diseases caused by being overweight or obese will cost 49 billion yuan a year by 2030, Zhou said.
The prevalence of overweight and obese children and adolescents in China was substantially below the global average in 2000 at 8.8%. But this figure increased by a remarkable 400% over the next two decades to an estimated 37.9% in 2020, surpassing that of some Western and upper-middle-income countries, the study found. By 2030, the figure will surge to more than 60% if the trend continues, researchers estimated.
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Nice to have company...
China, like the rest of Asia uses the same ‘vegetable’ oils and wheat as the US. No one should be surprised.
Does that mean there is no food shortage in China?
Chunks.
The study is obsolete. The children face less to eat as China falls apart
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And flavored drinks.
Not Chinese.
South Koreans flexing to the Norks.
THANK YOU KFC AND MCDONALDS!
A tax on "sugary" drinks? It will work just about as well as it did in Philadelphia. Philly still is one of the fattest cities in the country after 5 years of the tax.
Remember when our moms admonished us to eat everything on the plate ‘cause children in China were starving?
To which I responded, "Well you can send this over there."
(I don't remember anything afterwards)
Sure, why not? They are aggressively working to own and control the world’s food supply - especially right here in the United States. Most people here don’t even know it, because we’re too distracted with the invasion and pronouns.
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