Hong Kong men become fatter while women slimer
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-07-25 16:30

Hong Kong men have become fatter over the past 12 years while women have become slimmer by shedding weight, according to researchers from Hong Kong Association of Obesity.

The association's data indicated that 38.3 percent of men were overweight and 4.3 percent were considered obese, Sunday's South China Morning Post reported.

In 1990, only 27.5 percent of men were over weight and 2.2 percent were considered obesity, the association said.

However, women in Hong Kong become slimmer. In 2002, 29 percent of women were under weight. In addition, 22.7 percent were overweight, compared with 27.9 percent in 1990.

Gary Ko Tin-choi, vice president of the association said that a strong phenomena in Hong Kong is that those need losing weight do not care their obesity while those slim enough kept on reducing weight, influenced by slimming advertisements.

He believed that the ideal weight line should be less than 30 inches for men and less than 28 for women.

Men and women with weightline over 36 inches and 32 inches are easily to develop heart trouble, diabetes and vascular diseases, he warned.

On losing weight, Lo Kwok-wing, vice-convenor of the Hong Kong Primary Care Foundation, said some popular slimming methods were myths.

He believed that only a few prescription of drugs were capable of achieving the results of increasing metabolism while reducing calorie intake, different from the claims of nearly most of the slimming ads.

Lo added that there was no scientific evidence to show that massage treatments which claimed to stimulate the lymphatic system helped reduce weight.
He stressed that a balanced diet and regular exercises were the only ways to control weight.

In an other development, Hong Kong University (HKU) announced here last Friday that 20 percent of Hong Kong people's death related to physical inactivity in 1998.

HKU and Hong Kong Department of Health investigated 24,079 death cases in 1998 and found that among the death cases, more than half of adults aged 35 and/or over were physically inactive and 20 percent of death were associated with physical inactivity.

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