Smoking, Obesity Not Less Than Time Bombs!

Hong Kong:

Health experts in China say that there is a need of adopting better health steps and good eating habits. Chinese must quit smoking and consuming much of fatty acids since these habits are causing many chronic diseases like obesity and cancer. These diseases are not less than time bombs.

One of the expert wrote in The Lancet medical journal that wealthy Chinese in both urban and rural areas have marked to consume between 25 percent to 100 percent more fat every day in the year 2002 as compared in the year 1982. This is increasing the risks of chronic diseases like heart diseases and cancer.

According to a Chinese newspaper it was every third smoker in the whole world is Chinese. An average Chinese male person who is a smoker smoked 15 cigarettes every day in the year 2002 which was 13 per day in 1984. According to the researchers China will suffer from the productivity problem and also will suffer with the problems of premature deaths due to over smoking.

Also Chinese consume a lot of salt which should also be reduced. According to Yang Gonghuan of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing, reduction of consumption of salt should become a national campaign.

Matthew Korman of Stanford University in United States and Xiao Shuiyuan of China’s Central South University warned of the terrible consequence of over smoking habits of Chinese people. In the year 2003 45 percent to 50 percent of men in both rural as well as urban areas were regular smoker from which only 5 to 6 percent of them tried to quit smoking.

According to the two scientists if this trend of smoking continues then about 100 million Chinese men will die between 2000 and 2050 and their families may suffer with some or the other diseases.