China Needs Help with Childhood Obesity
But, given our soaring rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, I hardly think we're a good role model for overcoming childhood obesity. Are we?
Our life-partner China seems to thinks so. Chinese health officials have asked the U.S. for help in addressing China's increasing number of overweight children.
The Chinese government has turned to Indiana University's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation. Next month the university is hosting a meeting to develop a plan to implement "Sunny Sports China" a new program which aims to bring more daily activity to China's schools. It will affect 270 million kids.
In China, the rate of obesity is skyrocketing in the economically well-off, which is different than the news you read about in the U.S., where people living in low income neighborhoods with limited access to healthy foods, like fresh fruits and vegetables, are enduring higher rates of obesity and type-2 diabetes.
The rise in obesity among the wealthy in China is--surprise, surprise--being attributed to more fast foods restaurants, increased television watching and more time spent sitting on their butts. Just like Americans!
Sunny Sports China is being designed to get school children moving and to create physical activity habits that encourage children to be active their entire lives. Long story short, put down the McBurger and play ball or something!
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That's unfortunate that the childhood obesity rate is increasing in China (and so many other countries), but it's great that the government has acknowledged it as a problem and are taking steps to reverse it!
ReplyThe Chinese gov't is saying to their own people - look you are behaving like fat Americans, smarten up. I doubt if they sincerely want any outside advice.
ReplyToronto won the World Series in both 1992 and 1993. Still, a 99 year title streak is pretty good.
ReplyHey Cody-
I totally forgot! Oops! Thanks.
Peace.
Reply-Gerry
yeah, pretty good when only two countries are in the "world" series...LOL
ReplySeems to me we already helped China with Childhood obesity - achieve it, that is. After all, if they didn't copy the USA trends as they became wealthier they wouldn't have this problem! There answer lies not with America but with their past before they started copying American fast food chains etc... China, look within historically.
ReplyHow in the world are WE supposed to help them? Americans are fat as hell too! Yes we have information, but if we can't lead by example, then why ask us? Backwards.
ReplyYeah, I seriously doubt we'd be able to help China with childhood obesity, considering how fat our own kids are. China basically just started doing what America has been doing for the last 50 years or so and now they're starting to look like us as well. Maybe both countries should look at countries where the rates of childhood obesity are a lot lower and copy what THEY'RE doing. Most likely it'd be a country where they've never heard of Xbox, Nintendo DS, Playstation, or Doritos.
ReplyI agree with Yum Yucky & Spectra! We can't even control ourselves or help our children! Like the post said, put down the "too much food", eat healthier, eat less if you are eating too much & exercise! Simply said & I know hard to do for many but that is what it takes!
ReplyIf China is asking America for help, who is America going to ask for help!? I live in Australia and like China we are following the childhood obesity trends of America. It is definately a global crisis of the developed world.
ReplyIt seems perfect to me! Parents in this country, for the most part preach do as I say, not as I do, so China's not asking for an example, just advice. We have plenty of that to spare :-)
ReplyThe current obesity problem in China is sad, with fast food spreading around the world it is no real surprise, the positive thing is they are doing something about it.
ReplyThanks to globalization. Fatness is now transmitted globally to people.
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