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[quote=LOVEISVERB,227092]Study: Changes in traditional diet to blame for rapidly bulging waistlines"Nearly one in every five of China's more than 1.3 billion people are overweight or obese and the problem is getting worse among children, especially boys, according to a study.The study, to be published in the Aug. 19 issue of the British Medical Journal, found that 10 million children from the ages of 7 to 18 were overweight in 2000, up 28 times from 1985.Four million children were obese in that same age group in 2000, four times more than in 1985."Source: Newsweek <Aug. 18, 2006>------------------------------------What do you think?[/quote]
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