Overview of obesity in the People's Republic of China
A McDonald's Chinese New Year meal. American fast food outlets have been blamed for the increase in obesity in China.[1]
Obesity in China is a major health concern according to the WHO, with overall rates of obesity between 5% and 6% for the country,[2] but greater than 20% in some cities where fast food is popular.[3]
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obesity; Japan has defined obesity as any BMI greater than 25 kg/m2 while China uses a BMI of greater than 28 kg/m2. The preferred obesity metric in scholarly...
Obesity classification is a ranking of obesity, the medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it has an adverse effect...
increases inobesity and chronic diseases. Over the past two decades, the fast-food (FF) industry and obesity rates have increased rapidly inChina. Pizza...
20th century that obesity became common — so much so that, in 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally recognized obesity as a global epidemic...
9 have class 1 obesity; adults with a BMI of 35 to 39.9 have class 2 obesity; adults with a BMI of 40 or greater have class 3 obesity, which is also known...
smokers, and an increase inobesity among urban youths. In 2010, air pollution caused 1.2 million premature deaths inChina. Chinese mental health services...
evidence-based, well-defined, and efficient intervention to prevent obesity. Treatment for obesity often consists of weight loss via healthy nutrition and increasing...
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Programme, which measures obesity prevalence among school-age pupils in reception class and year 6, found obesity levels rocketed in both years groups by more...
associated with obesity, which some have proposed may be caused by stress from the social stigma of obesity, rather than from obesity per se. Anti-fat...
lead to heart failure and leg swelling. Obesity hypoventilation syndrome is defined as the combination of obesity and an increased blood carbon dioxide...
significant obesity problem, "5.7% for boys and 8% for girls". 19.6 percent of Grade 1 Chinese students are overweight. In addition, the obesity rate of primary...
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not a "core" subject. Even though obesity has increased among most of the population inChina, the burden of obesity has shifted onto the lower educated...
encouraging reductions in the prevalence of childhood obesity. For example, in a project in four Chinese cities, the prevalence of obesityin grade 3 and 4 boys...
Sports inChina consists of a variety of competitive sports. Traditional Chinese culture regards physical fitness as an important characteristic. China has...
control of eating, food preference and body weight in subjects with obesity". Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism. 19 (9): 1242–1251. doi:10.1111/dom.12932...
Pollution inChina is one aspect of the broader topic of environmental issues inChina. Various forms of pollution have increased as China has industrialised...
cancer, liver cancer and gallbladder cancer. Obesity may also lead to increased cancer-related mortality. Obesity has also been described as the fat tissue...
2021-03-08. Retrieved 2019-04-21. "肥満って、 どんな状態？" [What is obesity, what kind of state?]. Obesity Homepage (in Japanese). Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare...
from England who were famous in their time for their obesity. Happy Humphrey, the heaviest professional wrestler, weighing in at 410 kg (900 lb; 64 st 8 lb)...
activity in Western parents. In the developing world urbanization is playing a role in increasing rate of obesity. InChina, overall rates of obesity are below...
not associated with obesity or a greater prevalence of weight gain over 5 years: Findings from the Jiangsu Nutrition Study of Chinese adults". The British...
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