One third of all residents in the Chinese capital are putting their health at risk by overeating and under-exercising.

Nearly 32 percent of all Beijingers suffer from coronary heart disease, hypertension and obesity, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing a survey of 20 communities by the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Forty-seven percent in the sample said they never or rarely took part in sports, and 28 percent admitted to an appetite for oily food, Xinhua said.

The young are leading the way in the city's embrace of new sedentary, high-calorie lifestyles.

More than 18 percent of Beijing's primary and middle school students are characterized as obese, nearly a doubling from a decade ago, the agency said.

The findings confirm a pattern observed in many other countries where rising standards of living make non-infectious chronic diseases a rising danger to public health.

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