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2015-03-14 China-Japan-Koreas

China on Brink of Heart Disease 'Epidemic'

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-03-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Sitting too long at the sewing machines. I blame J.C. Penny, Cabellas, Gander Mountain, etc.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-14 08:36|| 2015-03-14 08:36|| Front Page Top

#2 ..don't leave out every pet shop and toy store while you're at it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-03-14 09:58|| 2015-03-14 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Or Warren Buffett and his Chinese car company

Posted by Slolung Chager2657 2015-03-14 10:06|| 2015-03-14 10:06|| Front Page Top

#4 BYD stands for "Bring Your Dog" - Hit the link in the above comment - you'll figure it out.

Posted by Slolung Chager2657 2015-03-14 10:09|| 2015-03-14 10:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Apparently an all Chinese food diet isn't super-healthy.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-03-14 10:22|| 2015-03-14 10:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Several of the college students I know, who have spent several months at a time in China in the last 3-4 years, have said they lost a lot of weight on the food they ate while there - mostly school cafeteria food & food they got at restaurants they went do. This was not from food poisoning, but due to a change in the content of the diet. They gained nearly all of it back as soon as they got back to the states and resumed their usual diet. None is or was obese.
I was researching school/institutional menus for Chinese primary & middle schools, and found several that had a special menu for obese children.
Some of the senior staffers of the language program look malnourished and stunted (to my medical eye), which I guess may be due to famine in the late 1950's and early 1960's. The staff born after 1980 look much healthier, and are all very slim, and on the short side. Childhood starvation by itself can cause cardiovascular complications late in life.
One thing about smoking, the fraction of Chinese needing old age pensions will be rather small.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-03-14 12:23|| 2015-03-14 12:23|| Front Page Top

#7 There may be an epigenetic effect of childhood starvation of grandparents which manifests as cardiovascular disease in the grandchildren.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-03-14 12:24|| 2015-03-14 12:24|| Front Page Top

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