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Obesity in China is a growing health concern with health officials stating that 15% of its citizens are overweight and 7% of its citizens are obese. It is a dramatic change from when China was experiencing famines as a result from the the Great Leap Forward. The rate of obesity in China has doubled in 10 years, according to a government report. China's first official nutrition and health survey revealed that between 1992 and 2002 more than 60 million people became obese. The problem is mostly confined to the cities where fast food culture and globalisation has increased the problem in comparison to poorer rural areas. However, the very large populations within cities in China means that today one fifth of the approximate total of one billion obese people on the planet are Chinese. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  chinadaily.com.cn 344px x 224px | 69.20kB [source page] An young overweight boy plays by the Yangtze river in Chongqing Obesity afflicts about 60 million people in China thanks to the rising prosperity and influx of fatty Western foods  news.bbc.co.uk 180px x 300px | 11.60kB [source page] China battles obesity Diet and lifestyle is being blamed From Yahoo Image Search: "Obesity in China"
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