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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.
"What is unprecedented is the changes in diet, weight and cardiovascular risk for children age 7 and older," noted Popkin in the statement. "These estimates highlight the huge burden that China's health care system is expected to face if nothing changes."
In the study, the scientists also saw that Chinese children between the ages of seven and 17 had a diabetes rate of 1.9 percent and a pre-diabetes rate of 14.9 percent. Researchers also believe that high levels of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) were identified in the blood, which can count the average plasma-glucose over time.
"The findings suggest a very high burden of chronic disease risk starting at a young age, with 1.7 million Chinese children ages 7-18 having diabetes and another 27.7 million considered prediabetic," explained Popkin in the statement. "In addition, more than one-third of children under age 18 had high levels of at least one cardiometabolic risk factor."
Following data collection, the investigators compared the Chinese data with the U.S. data pooled from the National Health and Nutrition survey (NHANES). The authors discovered that diabetes and inflammation rates were higher in Chinese children than in U.S. children or other Asian countries. While 0.5 percent of U.S. children had diabetes, 1.9 percent of Chinese children between the ages of 12 and 18 had diabetes. Likewise, 8.5 percent of children in the U.S. had high inflammation risk and 12.1 percent of Chinese children had high inflammation risk. This disparity in inflammation showed that there could be cardiovascular risks for Chinese adolescents.
"The number of individuals with high levels of at least one cardiovascular risk factor increased to 85 percent in individuals age 40 and older," noted Penny Gordon-Larsen, professor of nutrition in UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health, in the statement. "Of even greater concern is the fact that we see these high levels of risk in individuals living across the entire country - in rural and urban, as well as high and low-income areas. So the impending health care costs and implications are immense."
The researchers concluded that the project's findings correlate to earlier research studies that showed that there were higher levels of obesity among China's poor and rural population as compared to years before. The research was recently published online in Obesity Reviews and will be published in the September issue of the publication. Obesity Reviews is associated with the International Association for the Study of Obesity.
...from conspiracy researchers that the globalists want to reduce earth's population drastically.
Up until now the argument has been that the globalists just hate people. Particularly people of other races. This would explain their bold move to poison China with MacDonald's hamburgers.
The anti-globalists have argued that the earth has plenty of resources to support 10 billion people, so the Globalist arguments that such a population would use up resources faster than they could be created is just BS.
But recently I realized that there is a different approach to interpreting what the globalists are saying. What if we see them, instead of a bunch of academics - as they claim to be, more like a bunch of whiners?
What if what they are really complaining about is that we are using up THEIR resources? If there are too many people on the planet, the local population will use the resources, so they would not be available to sell to other star systems.
Doesn't that make sense?
I figure that maybe secretly the globalists want to join the Galactic Federation so they can start trading with other star systems. They want just enough people on earth to run a "resources factory" here. And they'll sell those products to other star systems and make big profits and live happily ever after. I think that could be what they are really up to. The "saner" ones, anyway.