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July 17, 2008

The report on Chinese obesity... supersized!

We've talked a lot about the growing issue of Chinese obesity in the past few days, and Al-Jazeera seems to agree with us that it's a serious problem. This video (see the second part, after the jump) delves into Beijing's changing culinary culture and how China's booming economy is bringing a corresponding weight jump, with 200 million Chinese reported as obese. From street food to fast food, Al-Jazeera takes a look at why the Chinese are getting so fat. Between this and cancer, looks like they have a lot to worry about.

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I'm at least impressed by the fact that this wasn't YET another report on how the importation of fast food has made China fat. It's such a cop-out answer.

Obviously it is part of the equation, but it's more of a symptom of the mindset people are eating with: more/sweeter/saltier/richer/faster/easier = better. Oh, and this biscuit has calcium added so it's okay to eat the whole package.

One could easily eat only Chinese food and get VERY VERY fat, and VERY high cholesterol, etc...

 
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