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| Diabetes, obesity on rise for children in China | |
| 2007-11-15 | |
More than one in five children were classified as obese and over 2 percent suffered type 2 diabetes, the China Daily said, citing a survey of 17,311 children aged eight to 18 by the Beijing Children's hospital. Type 1 diabetes, a genetic condition, is the most common form of diabetes in children, whereas Type 2 diabetes is linked with poor diet and a lack of exercise and is far more prevalent in adults. "The number of children with type 2 diabetes has risen sharply in recent years," Kong said. "The figures reflect the trend that the number of children suffering from type 2 diabetes might soon exceed the number of those with type 1 diabetes," the paper quoted Kong Lingzhi, deputy director of the Disease Prevention and Control Bureau under the Ministry of Health, as saying. There are about 20 million people suffering from diabetes in China, according to the Ministry of Health Web site (www.moh.gov.cn). "The number of children with diabetes has accounted for 5 percent of all patients, and it is increasing by 10 percent every year," Xinhua news agency quoted Li Qiang, an endocrine secretion professor, as saying. The rise in diabetes and obesity rates in China comes hand in hand with an economic boom that has brought more wealth for families to spend on food and less need to toil in fields for a living. More toil. Less wealth. The World Health Organization and Chinese Health Ministry warned last year that a surge in chronic diseases could kill up to 80 million people in China alone in the next decade. Surge? Or more accurate reporting? | |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #9 CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > SINODAILY > ANALYST: CHINA'S ECONOMY 40% SMALLER THAN ESTIMATED. 300Milyuhn Chinese live below UN World Bank's dollar-a-day poverty line which is circa 200M more than previously estimated, China's GDP in 2005 was US$5.0Trilyuhn versus $12.0T for USA during same. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-11-15 22:33 |
| #8 Moose, it's Darwinism. The closer a group of people are to vagaries of food supplies, the greater the genetic pool to efficiently process it. Those who lack the genetic ability to squeeze every last bit of nutrition out of what food may be available weren't around long enough to sustain a couple generations into the 'lean times'. The Chinese are just now hitting the point were availability of food is not a survival issue. Same for the Native Americans. Regardless of what they say, it hasn't matter whether its been a Donk or a Trunk in control of the White House or Congress, real poverty has continued to exist on several large reservations. Now some of that is free choice wanting to stay with the 'old ways'. However, the government not wanting to get caught with charges of malnutrition and deprivation has made sure 'food' is not an issue. So after many generations, they too have sustained and consistent access to food with the efficient processors doing what evolution expected of them. Pack it away for lean times. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-11-15 17:51 |
| #7 all the fault of Deng, and capitalism. back when Mao was in charge, Chinese children didnt suffer from obesity. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2007-11-15 12:18 |
| #6 Do chinese too have a genetic predisposition to fatten, as was reported for indians in a very similar article about the exact same issue a while back? |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-11-15 11:51 |
| #5 By the way, either those quaint brown people die in droves because of hunger (must be our fault, too, our lifestyle and all), and it's hand-wringing time, or they die in droves because they over-eat and become fat lil porkers (ditto), and it's hand-wringing times. Could the msm/Enlightned Elites make up their mind, please? |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-11-15 11:49 |
| #4 Oh, well, they might as well get fat and bad looking, it's not as if they will find girlfriends anyway. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-11-15 11:46 |
| #3 He looks like The Michelin Man... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-11-15 10:51 |
| #2 Looks fat to me, even if it is caused by a genetic disorder. And yes, it is in bad taste, regardless. But then, I, and a lot of us here, can be rather tasteless. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-11-15 10:51 |
| #1 They're only children, so they get spoiled. And the #1 thing that little spoiled kids like to do is eat at KFC. I see them every time I go in there, grabbing and shoving people out of the way. PS that child is not fat, he is suffering from a genetic disorder. It's in bad taste. |
| Posted by: gromky 2007-11-15 07:09 |