中国两亿多人体重超标 More than 200 million Chinese overweight

《京华时报》消息，2011国际健康生活方式博览会4月6日在京举行新闻发布会。中华预防医学会副会长蔡继明在会上透露，目前中国国内有超过两亿人体重超重，6000多万人肥胖。

高血压患者有1.6亿，糖尿病患者达9000万，而这两种疾病均与肥胖有关。

蔡继明还说：“不恰当的生活方式，如吸烟、酗酒、膳食不合理和缺乏锻炼等，已成为威胁中国人健康的重要危险因素。”

More than 200 million Chinese overweight

More than 200 million Chinese are overweight and another 60 million are obese, said Cai Jiming, vice director of the Preventive Medicine Association, in Beijing April 6 in a press conference of the International Healthy Lifestyle Expo, Beijing Times reports.

Also, 160 million people in China suffer from high blood pressure and another 90 million have diabetes, two diseases related to obesity.

"Unhealthy lifestyles, including smoking, excessive drinking, unbalanced diet, lack of exercise, have become the main factors endangering Chinese people’s health," Cai said.

(China.org.cn April 8, 2011)