Obesity targeted in national regulation
By Huo Yongzhe (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-18 05:32

The regulation, worked out by the Ministry of Health, will also be reviewed by related government departments. These include the Ministry of Health, the State Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Agriculture, according to Zhang.

But he declined to predict the exact timetable for a final launch of the regulation.

China's top priority in the food sector used to be ensuring all of its population have enough food and food safety, but with two decades of fast economic growth, the problem has been successfully overcome in most regions.

However, new problems have emerged and become more complicated as obesity and nutritional excess have become a serious issue among 16-20 per cent of the young population in large cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, according to Du Yuxia, chairman of the Chinese Association for Student Nutrition & Health Promotion.

"Two groups of people should be addressed with greater attention poor people and juveniles," said Jiang Jianping, deputy director of the experts committee with China Children Centre. China, as of today, still has a total of 26.10 million people in poverty in rural areas.

Compared with malnutrition in rural areas, nutritional excess and obesity are emerging problems among children in big cities, according to Tian Renlin, technical director of soy food with the American Soybean Association's Beijing Office.

To curb the problem, a school nutrition regulation is also to be formulated, based on proven practices in large cities in Shanghai, Beijing and Changchun.

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