WAR ON OBESITY BEGINS AT EARLY AGE IN SINGAPORE.(News)

From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | Date: November 5, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Gillian Wong Associated Press

SINGAPORE -- The fight against obesity starts young in Singapore. Fat children are separated from their classmates and ordered to do more exercising until they lose weight.

Ten-year-old Mona Siow has been trying to slim down for the last four years. Instead of joining her friends for recess, the fourth-grader and other chubby students gather in the hall and follow a teacher's instructions to skip rope, run, and dribble a basketball.

"I feel sad to be overweight when I look at people and they're so skinny and can wear so many ...

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