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2 of 3 Chinese to be overweight in 20 years: survey
The prevalence of obesity and related chronic diseases will significantly increase in China in the next 10 to 20 years, and two of every three Chinese may become overweight if no actions are taken,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said a health expert from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), People's Daily reported Thursday.
According to the newest survey on nutrition and health status of the Chinese population,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], China had nearly 300 million overweight or obese people in 2002, and 22.8 percent of Chinese adults over 18 years old were overweight and 7.1 percent were obese.
Obesity and being overweight are becoming a particularly prominent problem among urban children and adolescents. A national health survey in 2005 shows that 13.25 percent of urban boys between 7 and 22 are overweight,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and 11.39 percent are classified as obese.
The obesity rate will also bring a heavy burden to health care and health resources. The medical costs for and mortality rate of diseases caused by obesity are much higher than those caused by other diseases,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], including cancer and AIDS.
And by 2020,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Chinese mainland will have 85 percent of deaths attributed to chronic diseases, of which about 70 percent will occur in the labor force,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], according to the report.A cold front will bring more icy rain and snow to southern China from Sunday to Thursday,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], freezing parts of China's south already hit by sub-zero temperatures since the New Year's Day, weather authorities said Sunday.
From Jan. 9 to 13,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], most parts of Guizhou Province and some areas in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Yunnan Province will see more icy rain,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the National Meteorological Center (NMC) forecast.Meanwhile,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], most parts of the southern Hunan Province will see heavy snow,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it said.Snow is also expected in some regions in the central Hubei Province and the eastern Jiangxi Province,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], according to the forecast.
North and northeast China saw temperatures drop by 4 to 8 degrees Celsius Sunday. In some areas in Jilin and Liaoning provinces,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], temperatures dropped by 15 degrees Celsius.The high temperature Sunday in Changchun, capital city of Jilin Province, was minus 16 degrees Celsius during the day.
A British scientist claimed recently reindeer deliberately eat magic mushrooms to escape the monotony of dreary long winters.Andrew Haynes believed the animals seek out the mind-bending fly agaric fungi in the wild,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], reported The Sun.
Writing in the respected Pharmaceutical Journal, Haynes said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "They have a desire to experience altered states of consciousness. For humans a common side-effect of mushrooms is the feeling of flying,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so it's interesting the legend about Santa's reindeer is they can fly."He also said herdsmen drink the reindeer's urine to get high themselves.
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