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China's childhood obesity rate has soared.

Some time ago, Wang Kaizhen, vice president of the Capital Institute of Physical Education, said a set of data. In some areas of northern China, the obesity and overweight rate of children aged 3 to 6 has reached 30%.

Judging from the national conditions, the obesity rate and overweight rate of children aged 3 to 6 in China are already one of the most serious countries in the world.

The University of Valencia, Spain, conducted a global study to investigate overweight and obesity. The survey results show that among 195 countries in the world, China and India have the largest number of obese people, with15.3 million and14.4 million respectively.

According to a set of data from the National Bureau of Statistics and the Health Planning Commission, in China, the obesity rate of both adults and children soared from 2002 to 20 15, especially children. The overweight rate rose from 4.5% to 9.6%, and the obesity rate rose from 2. 1% to 6.4%.

Even if you don't look at these data, you can see it from chubby children all over the street:

Obesity and overweight have been the most serious threats to children's growth in China, and I'm afraid there is no one.

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Obesity is really terrible.

The news about obesity is always around us.

I once read a report that a child aged 10 was diagnosed with diabetes by physical examination. Isn't it a surprise? How can diabetes happen to children?

In fact, this is not surprising. Many diseases are getting younger now, so is diabetes. As long as you are obese and overweight, you may get diabetes.

Children are typical chubby, and they are born fat. Later, grandparents raised them, thinking that children must be fat in vain to be healthy and have an uncontrolled diet.

When children get used to eating, they will become a fixed thinking. They have to eat first anytime and anywhere, and even their schoolbags are full of snacks, so they can't stop. The weight changes every day. This boy who is only 10 years old is so fat that he even has breasts.

The child's mother said that in recent months, he has eaten more and more and is often hungry. He likes to drink carbonated drinks, bottle after bottle, and sometimes he drinks a bottle before going to bed.

I eat a lot, eat snacks without restraint, and especially like fried food, and drink too much sugar. Such a large intake is beyond the capacity of a child's developing kidney.

I don't want to intimidate you. The number of children with diabetes in China ranks fourth in the world. More than 30,000 children in China suffer from diabetes, and the number is growing exponentially.

Diabetes, the first bane of childhood obesity.

Obesity is not only unhealthy for children, but also a kind of trauma to the mind. Few obese children don't feel inferior.

I'm not satisfied with my looks, and I'm afraid to blend in with others and be laughed at.

Physical education class is always at the bottom, always holding the class back.

When you grow up, you always flinch in front of the person you like.

You see, a fat child's childhood is almost always accompanied by "dare", "fear" and "unworthiness". If the background color of a child's childhood is these words, I am afraid that his life will be very dark, at least, it is difficult to get sunshine.

How can a person who has looked up to the world since he was a child look up to the people around him when he grows up?

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Is there something wrong with China's diet?

One view is that the problem of such a large number of obese people and obese children in China lies in the traditional diet structure.

Is that really the case?

Experts say that the diet structure of contemporary children has changed from traditional staple food to high cholesterol food. Quite a few children have developed a high-fat, high-sugar and low-fiber diet. French fries, chocolates, high-sugar preserved fruits, cream cakes and sandwich biscuits are all familiar to children.

Moreover, such eating habits and diet structure have been proved by more and more evidence, which is a high-risk factor leading to simple obesity in children.

What I want to say is that China's traditional diet structure is very healthy, and it used to be an example for westerners to learn. The soaring number of obese children in China has nothing to do with our traditional diet.

In fact, to some extent, it is precisely because we abandoned the traditional diet structure that the obesity rate of children soared.

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Separate child care

Separate child care is another important cause of obesity and overweight among children in China.

A few years ago, a friend's little niece was born, and she went to a one-hundred-day banquet. The child looks a little thin, but he has regular features. He can tell at a glance that he is a beautiful embryo.

I went to a friend's house some time ago and saw my little niece. She is so fat that I can't believe it. The flesh on her face squeezed her eyes into a crack.

Asked about the reason, the friend said: it was not brought by the old man!