Fact: About 41.1 percent of Chinese men are overweight or obese, compared with 27.7 percent of Chinese women, according to a study published on August 17 in the medical journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, English-language newspaper China Daily reported. Fact: Like the waistlines of Chinese adults, the girth of the country’s youngest generations, too, continues to expand. Fact: For many young Chinese students, the July-August school vacation is not a time for play, fun excursions, amusement park shenanigans or discovering new, uncharted territory, but rather a period of intense workouts—at weight loss camps.
Fitting in
Around 8 p.m. on any given day, the following scenario will unfold before the eyes of yours truly at her Beijing compound: a slightly plumper young boy runs around the compound’s
