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It seems that most people in China are in shape.

When we were traveling in China, it's very crowded, and people were everywhere, yet it's very hard to see people who were off-shape (not to mention obese).

Is it their food, or gene?

This post was last modified: 01-11-2008 05:09 PM by JayFang.

This is a very good question. I'd also like to know the answer to it.
One thing is certain though. If China continues to allow Western 'junk-food' type
restaurants to flourish in their country, its citizens will start to lose their good shape.

Neither. It's their exercise. In China we see parks are full of people doing taichi and other exersices in early morning. We see 70-year-old people pedal bikes everywhere. We see people carry 50-pound bags around. Here we drive cars around for almost everything. We wheel our notebooks, spend time on Sofa and TV, and use elevators to the 2nd floor.

By the way, corrected some misspellings in your post. Hope you don't mind.

Chinese are very active people and they work really hard. And they also take very nutritious diet that's why they are in shape.

Oh ya I also heard that they are very active and hardworking, hmm now I think I need to learn this.

they walk a lot. Not many can afford to own cars. they drink chinese tea which is high in antioxidant too.

they maintain good health and hence they create great wealth
thats how China has developed massively

agree with you i have also seen such the problem. thanks man this is the way to expose your ideas

Thank you for thrashing the situation of chine here.
I heard about this already and enjoy...

Muhhahahahaha!! i too was in china recently, and was on the lookout for the 1 in 5 chinese are fat concept.

Seems the so called experts were very very wrong. Not 1 in 5, but 1 in about 1000. I took pics at the train station in guangzhou, bakma clothing markets (1000's of people there), zhongsan lu, beijing lu, and so many other places, and did NOT see many fat chinese.

I too am chinese, my dad is 96 and mom is 87. Neither are fat, nor am i. We eat chinese food regularly - rice, small portions of meat, veges, fish, fruit and green tea.

Dad retired from work at 85. I am still working a rather energetic job.

I think physical work, balanced diet and lots of laughs, keeps us thin. BUT, the people i work with, have family popping their clogs all over the place at really young ages - 50's and early 60's.

They're polynesians, and mainly fat.

I think the fresh food is the key, coupled with activity.