Blog: China’s Ballooning Child Obesity Problem
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A 2018 report found that in some of the country’s major cities, the prevalence of childhood obesity was approaching that of developed countries.
China’s children are getting fatter.
Thirteen-year-old middle schooler Xiaoyue underwent a gastrectomy this summer. She weighed 130 kilograms. The surgery removed most of Xiaoyue’s stomach, leaving only a banana-shaped portion that no longer allows her to eat as much food as she used to.
Xiaoyue is the youngest patient Lin Hongwei has ever operated on. The director of the obesity and metabolism center at the Plastic Surgery Hospital in Beijing said that he and his colleagues are seeing more and more teenage patients getting weight-loss surgeries.
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