Floating life

Fifteen-year-old Huang Jiaxin swims during treatment for his obesity at the Aimin Slimming Center in Wuhan, Hubei Province, yesterday. Doctors are using acupuncture and sport exercises as ways of helping the 160kg boy lose weight. The number of obese people in China now tops 60 million, almost double the figure of the 1990s.Mar 17, 2006

PHOTO: AP