
FAT CHINA |
Subtitle:
How Expanding Waistlines are Changing a Nation
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Book Category:
Business & Economics > General
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Author:
Paul French and Matthew Crabbe
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Binding:
Paperback
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ISBN 10:
0-857289659
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ISBN 13:
9780857289650
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Price:
16.99
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Publication Year:
2010
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Publisher Info
Anthem Press. InquiryBook Description
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 healthcare system. Today's overweight in China can look to a mixed future of bright economic hopes for their country, and poor and deteriorating health for themselves. From a situation 20 years ago when diets were limited by food availability, and famine was still a recent memory, China's urban centres have seen alarmingly rising rates of obesity. Throughout the country an estimated 200 million people out of a total population of around 1.3 billion were overweight (over 15%). Why is this issue so important?
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