Health Hong Kong fat fears Children moving from healthy traditional diets to fast food By Jill McGivering in Hong Kong Children in Hong Kong are being warned of a growing serious health risk - obesity. In a single generation, Hong Kong children have moved from healthy traditional diets to living on fast food and high fat snacks. During break time, secondary school students crowd round food stalls, buying fried chicken wings, crisps and other fatty snacks.
Children are taller and fatter than they used to be.
But their cholesterol levels are amongst the highest in the world and obesity is being seen as the top health risk. They don't see it as a problem. Traditionally, little fat babies are loved and thought to be healthy. Parents are very proud that their children are a bit podgy. Because they are fat when they are little, they grow up into little fat kindergarten children, become fat primary schoolchildren and this goes on.