• 3 years ago
China has the world’s largest population of overweight children, and a new industry has popped up to solve this problem — fat camps. We followed a 14-year-old girl who attended one this summer, and what motivates her to go through an intense two months.

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Producer: Lyn Yang
Videographer: Shirley Xu
Editor: Hanley Chu
Animation: Stella Yoo
Mastering: Victor Peña

#China #fat #obesity #fatcamp #loseweight

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