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Chinese getting taller and fatter!

BEIJING: Chinese people are growing taller as the country becomes richer but they are getting fatter even faster, the government said.Adult obesity rates reached 9.6 percent in 2012, more than doubling over a decade, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said in a report on national nutrition and chronic

By our correspondents
July 02, 2015
BEIJING: Chinese people are growing taller as the country becomes richer but they are getting fatter even faster, the government said.
Adult obesity rates reached 9.6 percent in 2012, more than doubling over a decade, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said in a report on national nutrition and chronic diseases. Those who were overweight went from 7.1 percent to 11.9 percent.
Among six to 17-year-olds the obesity increase was even more dramatic, more than tripling from 2.1 percent to 6.4 percent, while the proportion overweight went up by almost a third, to 30.1 percent.