Watch out United States, China is coming after another record of yours! But don’t worry too much, it's the record that denotes that they can’t run very fast and hate stairs. A new study by Jiao Tong Univeristy has reported that over the last decade childhood obesity in China has increased by 24.4 percent, mostly with city children in lower/middle class income families. more ›

This came out last week and I'm sorry to say that, a little bloated from all the "people in China are getting fat" news, I didn't watch it... until now. It's a shame - while a little wordy, it's a great nine-minute take on the country's obesity epidemic. Though they focus on China in general, almost all the scenes are shot in Shanghai - there's even an interview with our friend, Paul French, which references his new book Fat China. more ›

Already overflowing with superlatives, some of them not so great, China has now been declared the "diabetes capital of the world." A new report says that over 92 million adults in China have diabetes and nearly 150 million more are going to develop it. While, China's population tends to make numbers skew bigger than they would otherwise, check this percentage: That's 1 in every 10 adults here. Luckily, the solution for stemming this growing epidemic isn't that hard: walk more, eat less, China. more ›

After being unable to find a decent job because of their weight, four rotund girls found each other on the internet and decided to organize a band called 千斤组合 (qian jin zhu he) in 2007. We just found them this week. The name means thousand pounds band, but can be punned to also mean "daughters from noble families." more ›