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Chinas obesity epidemic: Teaching children to eat a rainbow The rise in diabetes in China could bankrupt the country’s healthcare system, says a medical expert. An innovative project is trying to stop fast food addiction Lucy Luo Programmes director, joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE) Tuesday 24 November 2015?10.00?GMTLast modified on Wednesday 25 November 201512.05?GMT There’s a direct link between urbanisation and increased food consumption and obesity issues in China, and it has become a growing epidemic. Dr Xu Zhangrong, deputy secretary of the China Diabetes Society has said that “the sudden rise of diabetes in China isn’t only a health threat but an economic one. It could bankrupt the country’s healthcare system. China needs to shift its focus from treating diabetes to preventing it”. Within one generation, the percentage ofChinese children who are overweight or obese has skyrocketed from 5% to 20%. The rate has absolutely exploded, over a very limited amount of time. But why is this happening? The main cause is our increasingly sedentary lifestyle, combined with the introduction of highly processed fast food and adoption of western aspirations.? The one-child policy meant that a whole generation of children growing up as the only child doted on by their two parents and four grandparents, which means they can have a large say in dictating what the household purchases. The problem is compounded by the fact that this generation of parents grew up not having a lot. I remember my mother telling me stories of her youth - that they were so poor that they only ate a portion of pork once every few months. Now, its not uncommon for Chinese households to have two or three investment properties. Within a generation you have people who have accumulated a lot of wealth which of course they want to give to their kids. They want to give them everything they never had, so if their kids want McDonalds, if they can afford it, why shouldn’t they? It’s a sign o