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Helping fat kids

ADDICTION to Western-style fast food and lack of exercise are the two main causes of adolescent obesity in China today.

There're about 12 million overweight children in China, accounting for about one-thirteenth of the world's total. If we do not address the problem in time, China will soon have a higher obesity ratio in its population than the United States and Europe.

Fan Li, CPPCC member and vice president of the China PLA General Hospital

 

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