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University offers students credits for losing weight
A university in eastern China is offering an accredited weight-loss course in an attempt to tackle obesity on campus.
According to an Asian website, .thestar.com.my, Fifty students have enrolled in the year-long course at Nanjing Agriculture University in Jiangsu province and encouraged to lose weight through a combination of regular exercise and diet control, Jiangsu Television reported.
Sixty percent of each student’s grade would be determined by how much weight they lost, with full marks in the section if they could shed 7 percent of their original weight, the report said.
The course is open to students with more than 30 percent body fat or a body mass index over 28.
The students must run on treadmills, record their daily food intake and upload photos of their meals to a WeChat group for feedback from nutritionists, the report said.
One student has dropped from 110kg to 84.5kg.
Zhou said he first had the idea to start the course five years ago when he heard that 12.95 percent of the students on campus were overweight.
Peking University’s School of Public Health projects that 28 percent of children in China aged between seven and 18 – or almost 50 million children – will be classified as obese or overweight by 2030.
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