Chinese children growing fat
NZPA-AP Peking Doctors are worried about a growing problem of obesity among Chinese children, the official Xinhua News Agency said. A survey of more than 2000 children indicated that one in 60 is overweight, said Dr Yan Chun, an official at the Peking Children’s Hospital. “Since 1978, my department has received about 850 overweight children who exceeded a child’s normal weight by seven or eight kilograms,” Dr Yan said.
Two boys had died of lung problems related to their obesity, she said.
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Press, 30 January 1986, Page 28
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