Bump. According to this article, it’s not half of Taiwanese who are overweight - but around 45%.
This is from a rather weird article from the Taiwan News about how “Taiwan is the most overweight country in Asia”. The numbers are that “a shockingly high 45.4 percent” have a BMI over 24. And that’s apparently the fattest in Asia. No caveats about accuracy of BMI (or that it’s over 25 that’s supposed to be overweight).
And the rest of the article goes into how this would seem to totally contradict that fact a third of the population exercises regularly, and then it quotes a Traditional Chinese physician about how to exercise properly in order to lose weight (don’t “suddenly engage in an intensive activity”; and don’t be “overly strenuous”).
And nothing, nothing whatsoever, is said about diet.