James Kynge

And apparently this cat gains about one kilogram every year or has done for the last three years.

And she wants to get her cat

onto a veterinary version of a Chinese ozempic drug.

So it's not just people, it's also cats that are getting out of shape in China and maybe are going to be given these drugs as well.

Yeah, I mean, the cultural shift is just huge.

When I was in China, I was in a company.

There were a bit more than a couple of hundred people there sitting in those, you know, big cubicle offices.

And I would say 90%, maybe 95% of the people there never went out for lunch.

They just got the, you know, the order of whatever it may be, or they brought it with them in a Tupperware box and

and they would eat sitting at their desks.

And so it meant that with long hours in the office, maybe you're having two meals sitting at your desk, you don't get any exercise.

As we all know, that's not a healthy way to live.

And it's very easy to pack on the weight if you've got cortisol as well from the stress.

And many Chinese companies work in a very stressful environment.

So

I mean, you've just sketched out some of the really stark statistics when it comes to people being overweight in China.

And I think it is linked to this kind of corporate culture, this sort of hard driving, start very early in the morning, finish very late at night, have your meal sitting in front of your cubicle.

You know, I think it is linked to that.

So maybe the solution to all of this, aside from Chinese ozempic style drugs, is for people to

To go back to what they used to do when I first went to China in the 80s and 90s, you know, go outside, do communal exercises, you know, star jumps or jumping up down on the spot or even marching in unison or something like that.