Children's Health & Fitness ? Child Diabetes And Obesity Rates ...

July 6th, 2012 by Len Saunders

From Red Orbit.com

These days, a McDonald?s Big Mac Hamburger is known internationally. While the fast food market has become more global, health issues like obesity and diabetes have had far reaching impacts in other countries around the world. In particular, researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC) recently discovered that Chinese teenagers have a diabetes rate that is four times higher than teenagers in the United States. The increase in the number of diabetes cases reported corresponds to the rise in the amount of cardiovascular risk. The investigators believe that the findings are related to a Chinese population that is become increasingly overweight.

The study was led by Barry Popkin, the W.R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished professor of nutrition at UNC?s Gillings School of Global Public Health, and conducted with Chinese researchers. The team utilized data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CNH) that was completed between 1989 and 2011. In the survey, the scientists tracked the data of over 29,000 people who lived in 300 different communities throughout China. The scientists were made up of members from UNC and the Chinese Center for Disease Control (CDC) National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety.

?What is unprecedented is the changes in diet, weight and cardiovascular risk for children age 7 and older,? commented Popkin in a prepared statement. ?These estimates highlight the huge burden that China?s health care system is expected to face if nothing changes.?

While China has experienced economic growth in the last twenty years, it also has had significant changes in terms of people?s weight, diets, and physical activity. The team of researchers tracked a randomly selected sample that represented 56 percent of the Chinese population in 2009. During the study, they saw that there were huge increases in cardiometabolic risk factors and the number of people who were obese.

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