At least 200 million Chinese to be obese in 10 years

[deadparrot]

BEIJING (AFP) - At least 200 million people in China will suffer from obesity within 10 years if current trends spurred by unhealthy lifestyles continue.

China currently has 90 million obese citizens whose weight is more than 20 percent in excess of their accepted level, said the Information Times, citing medical experts.

Among these, trends among youths were most disturbing, it added.

Ten percent of Chinese children were obese with the number increasing by eight percent annually, Chen Chaogang, a leading doctor at the hospital attached in Zhongshan University in southern Guangdong province, told the newspaper.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050618/ts_afp/healthchinaobesity

[punpirate]

1. Hmmm, it seems that...

... MickeyD and KFC have been busily installing franchises in China....

[Skittles]

2. exactly what I was thinking, punpirate

I do believe they are becoming Americanized

[anarchy1999]

7. It is such a treat to see you here and yes, go figure? China,

Americanized? Oh no?! Watch out folks. China will be the US Tsunami.

Heads up or down, head in another direction. Thank you Wally World.

Not!

:banghead:

[ugarte]

3. What will this do to the price of french fries?

Just like with oil, a billion fat Chinese could send french fries out of reach for most Americans.

[Clark2008]

4. LMAO

Like we can't make french fries.

Oh... wait.. then they'd be American fries.

Gee... what was I thinking? :crazy:

[Career Prole]

5. In all fairness they should have used percentages

considering the population of China is over 1,306,000,000.
I figure that would make 90 million obese to be about 7%.

That makes them a whole lot thinner than the U.S., even if they do double that percentage in ten years. ;)

[Ravy]

6. McDonalds expanding there? (n/t)

[shockra]

8. That reminds me of something I read in the Daily Grist.

Reversal of Fortune Cookies

China passes U.S. as reigning consumerism champion

America, for years the world's largest, proudest consumer, has been dethroned. Say hello to China, now the world's most consumingest nation, according to a recent survey by the Earth Policy Institute. China now beats the U.S. in consumption of four out of five basic commodities, including grain, meat, steel, and coal. The fifth, however -- oil -- is still no contest (whew!): The U.S. continues to burn triple what China does in order to power, among other things, cars, of which Americans have almost 10 times more than the Chinese. Unfortunately for consumption patriots out there, the details are pretty grim: China leads in coal consumption by some 40 percent. It used more than twice the steel Americans did in 2003. China noshed 64 million tons of meat in 2004 to the U.S.'s 38 million. Add in the fact that China's 1.3 billion citizens also go through more refrigerators, cell phones, and TVs than do Americans, and this is a dark day indeed.

straight to the source: BBC News, 17 Feb 2005

straight to the source: China Daily, 17 Feb 2005

straight to the source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Associated Press, William C. Mann, 17 Feb 2005

http://www.grist.org/news/daily/2005/02/17/

[truthisfreedom]

9. makes them safer to tazer, right?

see the thread on tazering thin people.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. It should steady out the wobble. eom.

[annabanana]

11. HeyHey! Great new healthcare market opening up!

the diabetes med manufacturers must be wetting themselves...

[tanyev]

12. Woo-hoo!

We don't need military might to destroy the world! Our toxic culture will prevail! x(

[Abathar]

13. This reminds me of a comic strip I saw

It was a strip from The Wizard of Id, a reporter was interviewing the King and was asking him questions about his people. He asked:

"So your majesty, what do you think about the obesity problem that is facing your people these days?" And the King responded "I like it a whole lot more than the famine problem we use to have."

I can still remember as a kid hearing about the starving that occurred when China's rice crop was bad one year, if for once in the past 1500 years a few get fat is that really so bad a thing?

[jus_the_facts]

14. they've got bigger worries than fat...if there's a bird flu pandemic.....

....don't look so good for any of us actually....

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