The Chinese have not been known as the healthiest of peoples, and international surveys recently have shown the Chinese rate for many diseases to be quite high.
在世界上各個民族間，中國人的體格並不算是最強健的。近幾年國際組織的統計資料顯示，有幾種病症在中國人聚居的地方，罹患率都相當高。