{"id":747,"date":"2008-07-18T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/globesity-obesity-is-expanding-to-china\/"},"modified":"2008-07-18T17:01:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T22:01:36","slug":"globesity-obesity-is-expanding-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/globesity-obesity-is-expanding-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Globesity: Obesity is Expanding to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been exporting jobs to the Far East for years, while importing many goods as well. Unfortunately for China, they are importing one of our bad habits: Obesity. As Eastern countries continue to shift their economies towards capitalist consumerist models, their waistlines are paying the price.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/overweight-chinese-boy.gif\" alt=\"Chinese Obesity\" align=\"right\" height=\"234\" width=\"235\" \/><br \/>\nMore than a quarter of the adult population in China is overweight or obese. Only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/the-mexican-obesity-crisis\/\" title=\"obesity in mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a> is growing their waistlines faster among developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers blame changes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/The_Asian_Diet\/\" title=\"asian diet\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese diet<\/a>, which is now including more eggs and meat and fewer vegetables and carbohydrates, and a shift away from physically demanding farm jobs to the sedentary service work sector.<\/p>\n<p>If it continues to get worse, it will be interesting to see what, if anything, the government does. It could be heavy-handed, given their approach to limiting family sizes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been exporting jobs to the Far East for years, while importing many goods as well. Unfortunately for China, they are importing one of our bad habits: Obesity. As Eastern countries continue to shift their economies towards capitalist consumerist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/globesity-obesity-is-expanding-to-china\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[501,1,31,92],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-china","tag-diets-in-review","tag-health-news","tag-obesity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}