Malnourished students
China Daily | Updated: 2011-03-05 07:48
Two meals a day is a sweet dream for many students in rural China. In contrast, many children in cities are prone to overeating and, thanks to their Western couch-potato way of life, ballooning into a big obesity problem as "little emperors".
The China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) surveyed 1,458 children aged between 10 and 13 in Qinghai and Yunnan provinces, and the Ningxia Hui and Guangxi Zhuang autonomous regions. The result, released on Feb 27, shows nutrition deficiency has stunted the growth of 12 percent of the children and left 9 percent of them underweight.
According to another study, conducted in 2009, almost 20 percent children below 7 years in cities are overweight and more than 7 percent obese.
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