Chubby Little Emperors
One of the bad side effects of China's urbanization (importing KFC without importing the consciousness that it's greasy and bad for you):
Figures for Beijing last year published in state media showed that 25.6 per cent of 12-year-old children were obese. There is even a problem among the under fives, 17 per cent of whom are obese and therefore five times as likely to be overweight in later childhood.
"You don't tend to see fat families. You tend to see the fat kid. The little emperor is fat. He's having McDonald's, and no one ever says no to him when he wants his Coca-Cola and biscuits. In the next generation we may see fat mums and dads with their kids," said Paul French, co-author of a book published last year called Fat China, and publishing and marketing director of the Shanghai research agency Access Asia.
http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/childhood-obesity-on-the-rise-in-chi...
