Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines Are Changing a Nation

by Paul French and Matthew Crabbe

Book Overview

China's economy has boomed, but a potentially disastrous side effect - along with pollution and a growing income gap between urban and rural regions - is the effects obesity will have on the country's fragile healthcare system. Today's overweight in China can look to a mixed future of bright economic hopes for their country, and poor and deteriorating health for themselves. From a situation 20 years ago when diets were limited by food availability,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857289659
• ISBN13: 9780857289650
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"