摘 要: | The incidence of obesity has been ap-parently increasing in recent years.Accord-ing to the statistics of 34,006 individuals in-vestigated in 1987 in Beijing,3,560 wereobese,accounting for 10.47%.The incidenceof obesity in Nanjing in 1986 reached26.95% (971 individuals investigated).Aretrospective analysis of 3,160 newborns inShenyang City of China indicated a 7.05%incidence of obsesity in newborns.Thetreatment of obesity by means of traditionalChinese medicine (TCM) has proved effec-tive and thus drawn increasing attention
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