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2007-11-15 China-Japan-Koreas

Diabetes, obesity on rise for children in China

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Posted by gorb 2007-11-15 04:48|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#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|| 2007-11-15 07:09|| Front Page Top

#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">Glenmore 2007-11-15 10:51|| 2007-11-15 10:51|| Front Page Top

#3 He looks like The Michelin Man...

Posted by tu3031 2007-11-15 10:51|| 2007-11-15 10:51|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-11-15 11:46|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-11-15 11:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-11-15 11:51|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-11-15 12:18|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-11-15 17:51|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-11-15 22:33|| Front Page Top

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