Chinese people getting
taller and fatter: govt
By AFP
Chinese people are growing
taller as the country becomes
richer but they are getting
fatter even faster, the
government and state media
said.
The proportion of Chinese
over-18s who were
overweight stood at 30.1
percent in 2012, up 7.3
percentage points over a
decade, Wang Guoqiang, a
vice director of the National
Health and Family Planning
Commission, told a press
conference.
The obesity rate had risen by
4.8 percentage points to 11.9
percent, he said Tuesday — a
two-thirds increase.
“The problem of overweight
and obesity is rising sharply
as the dietary make-up has
changed,” Wang said. The average Chinese man
weighed 66.2 kilograms (146
pounds) in 2012, he said,
citing a government report on
national nutrition and chronic
diseases, with women
weighing in at 57.3
kilograms.
Males have put on an
average 3.5 kilograms over
10 years, the China Daily said
Wednesday citing previous
figures, while women were
2.9 kilograms heavier.
“Smoking, excessive drinking
of alcohol, insufficient
physical exercises and
unhealthy diet such as high
salt and fat consumption are
the main behaviour risk
factors that trigger and
worsen chronic diseases,”
Wang said at the briefing.
“Pressures brought by the
rapid development and
transformation of the
economy and society on
people’s life and work have
also caused impact on
health,” he added.
The average Chinese man
was 167.1 centimetres (5.48
feet) tall, the figures showed,
and women’s average height
was 155.8 centimetres.
They were up just 0.4
centimetres and 0.7
centimetres repectively from
10 years earlier, the China
Daily report said.
In comparison the Dutch —
the world’s tallest nation —
average 184 centimetres for
men and almost 171
centimetres for women.
The numbers made Chinese
people “slightly shorter” than
their neighbours in Japan
and South Korea, the
newspaper said, quoting
Liang Xiaofeng, deputy
director of the Chinese Centre
for Disease Control and
Prevention.
A report published in The
Lancet last year showed that
363,000 fatalities in China
each year were linked to high
body-mass index, an
indicator for heart disease,
diabetes and other ailments.[b]Chinese people getting
taller and fatter: govt
By AFP
Chinese people are growing
taller as the country becomes
richer but they are getting
fatter even faster, the
government and state media
said.
The proportion of Chinese
over-18s who were
overweight stood at 30.1
percent in 2012, up 7.3
percentage points over a
decade, Wang Guoqiang, a
vice director of the National
Health and Family Planning
Commission, told a press
conference.
The obesity rate had risen by
4.8 percentage points to 11.9
percent, he said Tuesday — a
two-thirds increase.
“The problem of overweight
and obesity is rising sharply
as the dietary make-up has
changed,” Wang said. The average Chinese man
weighed 66.2 kilograms (146
pounds) in 2012, he said,
citing a government report on
national nutrition and chronic
diseases, with women
weighing in at 57.3
kilograms.
Males have put on an
average 3.5 kilograms over
10 years, the China Daily said
Wednesday citing previous
figures, while women were
2.9 kilograms heavier.
“Smoking, excessive drinking
of alcohol, insufficient
physical exercises and
unhealthy diet such as high
salt and fat consumption are
the main behaviour risk
factors that trigger and
worsen chronic diseases,”
Wang said at the briefing.
“Pressures brought by the
rapid development and
transformation of the
economy and society on
people’s life and work have
also caused impact on
health,” he added.
The average Chinese man
was 167.1 centimetres (5.48
feet) tall, the figures showed,
and women’s average height
was 155.8 centimetres.
They were up just 0.4
centimetres and 0.7
centimetres repectively from
10 years earlier, the China
Daily report said.
In comparison the Dutch —
the world’s tallest nation —
average 184 centimetres for
men and almost 171
centimetres for women.
The numbers made Chinese
people “slightly shorter” than
their neighbours in Japan
and South Korea, the
newspaper said, quoting
Liang Xiaofeng, deputy
director of the Chinese Centre
for Disease Control and
Prevention.
A report published in The
Lancet last year showed that
363,000 fatalities in China
each year were linked to high
body-mass index, an
indicator for heart disease,
diabetes and other ailments.[/b]Chinese people getting
taller and fatter: govt
By AFP
Chinese people are growing
taller as the country becomes
richer but they are getting
fatter even faster, the
government and state media
said.
The proportion of Chinese
over-18s who were
overweight stood at 30.1
percent in 2012, up 7.3
percentage points over a
decade, Wang Guoqiang, a
vice director of the National
Health and Family Planning
Commission, told a press
conference.
The obesity rate had risen by
4.8 percentage points to 11.9
percent, he said Tuesday — a
two-thirds increase.
“The problem of overweight
and obesity is rising sharply
as the dietary make-up has
changed,” Wang said. The average Chinese man
weighed 66.2 kilograms (146
pounds) in 2012, he said,
citing a government report on
national nutrition and chronic
diseases, with women
weighing in at 57.3
kilograms.
Males have put on an
average 3.5 kilograms over
10 years, the China Daily said
Wednesday citing previous
figures, while women were
2.9 kilograms heavier.
“Smoking, excessive drinking
of alcohol, insufficient
physical exercises and
unhealthy diet such as high
salt and fat consumption are
the main behaviour risk
factors that trigger and
worsen chronic diseases,”
Wang said at the briefing.
“Pressures brought by the
rapid development and
transformation of the
economy and society on
people’s life and work have
also caused impact on
health,” he added.
The average Chinese man
was 167.1 centimetres (5.48
feet) tall, the figures showed,
and women’s average height
was 155.8 centimetres.
They were up just 0.4
centimetres and 0.7
centimetres repectively from
10 years earlier, the China
Daily report said.
In comparison the Dutch —
the world’s tallest nation —
average 184 centimetres for
men and almost 171
centimetres for women.
The numbers made Chinese
people “slightly shorter” than
their neighbours in Japan
and South Korea, the
newspaper said, quoting
Liang Xiaofeng, deputy
director of the Chinese Centre
for Disease Control and
Prevention.
A report published in The
Lancet last year showed that
363,000 fatalities in China
each year were linked to high
body-mass index, an
indicator for heart disease,
diabetes and other ailments.

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