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A university in eastern China is offering a weight-loss course to raise awareness about the issues due to obesity, in the campus. The year-long course is only available to those with a Body Mass Index (BMI) higher than 28.
Around fifty students have enrolled in the program at Nanjing Agriculture University in Jiangsu province.
Students are encouraged to lose weight through a combination of regular exercise and diet control during the span of 12 months of the course. Sixty percent of student’s grade will be decided on how much weight they lose.
The university began the program after realizing that their students are gaining heavier.
Nearly 13 percent of their students in the first and second year were overweight, Jiangsu Television reported.
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