The main idea of the article, on which the authors focus their attention, is obesity and overweight being the rapidly growing threats throughout China. The research question of the article is to find out changes in obesity and overweight rates in China in the period from 2006 to 2011. The article consists of an abstract, introduction, the description of methods and materials used, the results of the study being divided into descriptive statistics and regression results, discussion, conclusion, and the supporting information. The authors state that improving dietary knowledge and increasing awareness about the diseases that are usually caused by obesity and overweight can potentially prevent these conditions, which are now common in many countries and require substantial attention from the side of governments and international organizations.
Thus, the purpose of this research is to investigate the influence of dietary knowledge improvement on the level of obesity and overweight among adults. In their study, the authors used balanced panel data comprising 10,400 samples from 2011, 2009, and 2006 reviews of the China Nutrition and Health Survey. For that period, the rates of overweight have increased from 26% to 31%, and the rates of obesity have increased from 6% to 9% of the entire population (Zhou, Zeng, Jin, & Cheng, 2017). According to the results, obesity and overweight are becoming a problem in China, and dietary knowledge among adults should be improved. Moreover, according to the empirical results, the improvement in dietary knowledge among Chinese adults has no considerable impact on adult obesity and overweight, which is considered a likely result of not receiving dietary knowledge systematically and lacking guidance on the behaviors related to obesity and overweight (Zhou et al., 2017). Particularly, Chinese adults urgently need systematic dietary education, which will be incorporated into the current obligatory education system and will play a crucial role in increasing awareness about the diseases that can be caused by obesity and overweight.
References
Zhou, L., Zeng, Q., Jin, S., & Cheng, G. (2017). The impact of changes in dietary knowledge on adult overweight and obesity in China. PloS ONE, 12(6), 1-11.