GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - in a village waterfront sleepy in the South of China, three years Lu Zhihao tears around his home. his stomach, arms and legs wobbling with fat as it food a PEAR in his mouth.
"I want to be superman," said the toddler, kid a typically cheeky, but a scaling in more than 60 kg (132.3 lb.), to five times the weight of a boy of his middle age.
With cheeks puffed puckering up to his eyes and mouth, the folds of flesh as a man of miniature Michelin and strongly inclined legs, a metre (yard) tall toddler condition is suspected to be in part the result of a hormonal imbalancein light of its size.
His requirements loud and frequent to feed, however, are often met by accommodating parents and a constant flow of visitors in their lively home court.
"yum, yum, yum yum." "I like to eat fish," he said, smiling with his mouth full to the lunch hour, as he wolfed down several bowls of rice and fish cooked in steam.
With China's coastal cities booming in the midst of growing urbanization and industrialization, a new generation more wealthy middle-class families have mounted more pampered children as Lu Zhihao, providing a growing blight of Obesity Society Chinese.
"More than 20 years ago many people, even in the richest cities of China, struggling to feed;" now, they are struggling to lose weight, "writes Paul French and Matthew Crabbe in their recent book" China Fat: how jump in expansion change of a Nation. ?
"The combination of the increase in income, a greater longevity and the one-child policy means that the phenomenon of"six Pocket"emerged with each child with more rich parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles - all ENVIS of spoiling their".
Some experts describe it as the "little emperor" syndrome, exacerbated by the unique child political controversy since the 1970s to control that a growing population planned 1.65 billion in 2033.
Virtually no high street in Chinese cities are now without a McDonald's or Kentucky Fried Chicken and smoking rates are among the highest in the world, then the country develops quickly and its economy sky-rockets.
"Obesity is a problem for rich, newly emerging middle-class consumers," wrote French and Crabbe.
Mother of Zhihao Chen Huan admitted that he throws tantrums when he was deprived of food, as the toddler sulked on a couch that he refused a package of cookies after dinner.
"He has difficulty in moving up and down the stairs." He needs help on the bus that takes him to the child care Centre. "It is also difficult to swim causes her fat rolls," said Chen, who works as a factory worker in the Pearl River Delta.
"Of course I am concerned about it." Fundamentally, his legs cannot support its weight... "His heart is also under pressure because of the heavy workload," said the father of Zhihao, Lu Yuncheng, who works on a fish farm.
A working group on childhood obesity 2008 National Chinese found that nearly one in five children under the age of seven are overweight in China, and more than seven percent are obese.
(Reports by Stefanie McIntyre and Gary Ling, writing and editing by Paul Casciato and James Pomfret)
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