200 million Chinese are overweight
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China&#39;s rising incomes are expanding its waistlines, the health ministry has found: 200 million citizens are now judged overweight.
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One out of every five children in a Chinese town is overweight, and everyone is blaming the TV. For each hour a day spent in front of the television the risk of obesity increases by one to two percent, according
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A prominent study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have overstated the number of obesity-related deaths in 2000 by as much as 20 percent, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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People are getting fatter in all parts of the world, with the possible exception of east Asia, doctors found in a one-day global snapshot of obesity.
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Babies who are born heavy and grow fast have a 150 percent chance of being overweight or obese by the time they are seven years old, a survey of more than 8,000 children in Hong Kong has shown.
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There are totally 1.8 million cancer sufferers in China, with an incidence of disease reaching 70/100,000, said Wu Fan, director of the National Center for Chronic and Non-communicable Disease Control and Prevention.
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The global obesity epidemic is completely out of control, with more than 300 million overweight adults worldwide, according to specialists at the first international obesity conference in Africa.
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The number of obese people in Sweden has doubled in the past 25 years, with one in 10 Swedes now considered largely overweight, a Statistics Sweden study showed.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - People are not the only ones fighting the battle of the bulge, millions of dogs in the United States are overweight or obese, according to animal experts.
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Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with two-thirds of adults and some 25 million children obese or overweight, and the fatness of the land threatening US competitiveness, a report published Monday showed.
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Chinese scientists have proved it -- tea can help make you thin.
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BEIJING - Nearly 200 students at a school in northeastern China have been hospitalized, apparently with food poisoning, after eating in the facility's cafeteria, state media said Thursday.
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The obesity epidemic is reaching down to the playpen as more than 10 per cent of US children ages two to five are overweight, the American Heart Association has reported.
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Dance classes soon will be mandatory for Chinese elementary and secondary students because of worries about increased obesity, state media reported Tuesday.
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Cubans are no strangers to the battle of the bulge. Waistlines have expanded since the economic crisis of the early 1990s eased on the communist-run island &#151; so much so that 30 percent of adults are now overweight, a newly released government study reveals.
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People are getting fatter in all parts of the world, with the possible exception of Asia, a global snapshot shows.
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MODERN lifestyle is taking a heavy toll on the health of urban city dwellers in China. A study by the Chinese Red Cross of 16 Chinese cities, each with more than 1 million people, found that 75 per cent of