Growing fat on reform: obesity and nutritional disparities among China's children, 1979–2005

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Growing fat on reform: obesity and nutritional disparities among China's children, 1979–2005

Economic growth over the past three decades has greatly improved the nutrition and living standards of people in China. However, increasingly, the Chinese are becoming heavier. As many as a quarter of Chinese school-age urban boys are overweight or obese, yet a third of Chinese children remain under...

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Main Author:	Morgan, Stephen L.
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2014
Subjects:	China; nutrition; obesity; inequality; economic development
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29352/

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