date:Jan 21, 2013
food and rising affluence, a country only a generation removed from hunger is getting fat. How fat? According to the World Health Organization, the percentage of adults who are overweight and obese rose from 25 percent in 2002 to 38.5 percent in 2010 in a population of 1.37 billion.
Urban dwellers account for much of this. World Health projects that 50 to 57 percent of the Chinese population will be too heavy by 2015.
By comparison, 69 percent of Americans age 20 and older are overweight or ob