Five years ago, in a nutrition and fitness survey of more than 2,000 eight- to fifteen-year-olds on Taiwan, Huang Po-chao, Dean of the College of Medicine at National Taiwan University, discovered that eight percent of eight-year-olds exceeded their standard body weight by 20 percent. The most serious problems were among twelve-year-olds, where 15 percent had the same problem.
五年前，台灣大學醫學院院長黃伯超對台灣地區二千多名八歲至十五歲的學生作營養和體位調查時發現，超過標準體重百分之廿的八歲學童佔百分之八，而肥胖情形最嚴重的是十二歲，發生率佔百分之十五。