Lu Zhi-hao is an obese child
who hails from Shunde, Guangdong. The four-year-old is 110 centimeters tall and
weighs 62 kilograms. The Chinese media dubs him "China's no. 1 fat
kid."
Known as "Xiao
Hao" by friends and family, the kid has been taken to several hospitals in
Guangdong to find out why he's so fat, but doctors can only say that it is down
to bad eating habits.
If he doesn't do something
about his weight now, doctors predict Xiao Hao's obesity will become
life-threatening by the time he turns 20.
According to Apple Daily, a
Hong Kong weight-loss center has offered to help Xiao Hao lose weight for free.
The center, which has not given out its name, uses non-intrusive Japanese
technology to help the body break down fat.
Xiao Hao's parents are now
applying for a permit to travel to Hong Kong and hope to be here with their
rotund child in a couple of weeks.
"We believe there must
be specialists in Hong Kong who can help us," says Xiao Hao's father, Lu
Ye-ming.
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The mother and father of the
child are both of normal weight, and obesity has not been a part of the
family's health history. Xiao Hao slowly ate his way to fatness.
But he's been put on a diet
now, which means cutting down from his regular three bowls of rice per meal to
just one bowl.
Apple Daily's video of Xiao
Hao at school shows him finishing his bowl of rice at lightning speed and
begging his friends for their lunches. When they don't cooperate, he steals a
meatball from his neighbor's bowl.
He is rewarded with a punch
to the face, but the swing hardly seems to have an impact on the child's puffy
cheeks.
The WHO says more than 20
percent of the population in some Chinese cities is now obese.
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