China's extreme weight loss camps
Daily weigh-ins, mandatory exercise classes and no snacks.
Military-style weight loss camps in China are getting popular. You sign up voluntarily for a month and follow a strict daily routine, with intense exercises, mandatory trips to the scales and rules on snacking. Some people have called them 鈥渇at prisons鈥�. So what鈥檚 it like to go to one? TL Huang from Australia tells us about her experience. We hear about the downsides of these kinds of 鈥渇at camps鈥� from British nutritionist and personal trainer Luke Hanna. And Wanqing Zhang from the 麻豆社鈥檚 Global China Unit explains why more people in China are signing up to them.
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