China's citizens see a fast expansion of their waistlines and on Thursday 12 July Paul French will talk about "Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines Will Change a Nation" at the British Chamber of Commerce.
From the invite:
From a situation 20 years ago when diets were limited by food availability, and famine was still a recent memory, China'surban centres have seen alarmingly rising rates of obesity: Across China 7.1% percent of adults are obese and 22.8% (more than one fifth) were overweight. Throughout the country an estimated 200 million people out of a total population of around 1.3 billion were overweight (over 15%). This rate rises to nearly 20% in China's major cities. In the past decade, the number of Chinese defined as overweight increased 39%, and the number deemed clinically obese by 97%.China's economy has boomed, but a potentially disastrous side effect, along with pollution and a growing income gap between urban and rural regions, is the effects obesity will have on the country's fragile health care system. Today's fat kids in China can look to a mixed future of bright economic hopes for their country, and poor and deteriorating health for themselves.
The details:
Thursday 12th July 2007, 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Mesa & Manifesto, 748 Julu Lu, T: 6289 9108
Cost: Member: RMB 120, Non-member: RMB 140
Pay at the event
Contact Detailsariel.wang@sha.britcham.org
Paul French is also part of our upcoming Speakers' Bureau and if you are interested in getting him as a speaker, do drop us a line.
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