More than half of Chinese adults are overweight. That s more than the entire US population CNN 12/26/2020
As China grows richer, the waistlines of adults in the country are also expanding.
More than half of Chinese adults are now considered overweight, a study conducted by the country s National Health Commission revealed on Wednesday. Obesity rates among Chinese adults have also more than doubled in less than two decades, from 7.1% in 2002 to 16.4% this year.
According to the report, 50.7% of Chinese adults are overweight, including those who are obese. In a country of 1.4 billion, that amounts to more than half a billion people more than the entire US population.
2020-12-23 13:35:36 GMT2020-12-23 21:35:36(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) More than 50 percent of Chinese adults are troubled by overweight or obesity, warned a report released by China s health authorities on Wednesday.
The overweight and obesity rate among children aged six to 17 is 19 percent, while that among children aged under six is 10.4 percent, according to the report, which was based on the results of a nationwide survey on the nutrition and chronic disease status of Chinese nationals between 2015 and 2019.
The prevalence rate of overweight and obesity is rising quite quickly and affecting all age groups, said Zhao Wenhua, chief nutritionist with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), at a Wednesday press conference.
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