In response of the World Cancer Day initiated by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association (CACA) launched “I love my healthy active childhood” on 4 February 2009 in China which provided a series of free services to raise awareness about the link between overweight, obesity and cancer and encourage children to eat a healthy diet and be physically activity.

　　The World Cancer Day in Tianjin is sponsored by CACA, co-sponsored by the Tianjin Anti-Cancer Association and the Tianjin Women and Children’s Health Center as well.

　　Lectures focus on the link between obesity and cancer was provided to the public. It introduced the importance of eating healthy diet and being physically actives and raised the alarm about cancers resulted in obesity among the participants. “I wouldn’t know harm of obesity without these lectures”, said by a father who has a boy of five, “and I won’t let overweight thread my kid.”

　　Free consultations were provided by experts on oncology and children diseases, including specialists from the CACA, the Tianjin Anti-Cancer Association and the Tianjin University of Sport. The attendees were benefit a lot from the well organized consultation.

　　CACA distributed flyers for the target children and their families which impressed a large group of people. A teacher from a primary school who would show flyers to his student said. “P.E. class is as important as language or mathematic class. The latter provide them wealthy knowledge; the former, however, ensure them good health in the future.”

　　In order to direct children in the right path of having healthy diet and enough exercises that will reduce risk of cancer later in life, CACA offered a free medical examination program for children to accept the evaluation and analysis of body fat and blood liquid level, hepatic ultrasonic B examination, blood pressure measurement, etc.

　　The organizer of the World Cancer Day in Tianjin, Prof. Guangchao Zhang, told the press, “The increasing obesity trend among children is becoming a worrying thread. It brings physical and psychological problem to our future world. Most of the obesity cases are not inherited obesity, but out of unhealthy diet, lifestyle, little physical activity. In western countries, obesity counts for 30% of all cancer incidences. It is the second carcinogen after smoking. The reason we launched the World Cancer Campaign in Tianjin is to raise awareness of the link between overweight, obesity and cancer, and to call on families, health care professionals and educators to help children eat a balanced diet and be physically active, so that they can keep a standard weight – setting them on the right path to reduce their risk of cancer later in life.

　　The Beijing Association of Health Education, SOHU.COM and CACA jointly sponsored a Live Video Interview on SOHU.COM under the banner of “I love my health active childhood – keep children away from obesity and cancer.” Doctors from Beijing Association of Health Education and Beijing Children’s Hospital were invited to spread knowledge to the public, “Periodic physical examination for children is as important as adults because early signals of cancer might be hidden by the growing pain or other diseases. Body fat and blood liquid level analysis as an essential part of the physical examination can predict the tendency of obesity, so that parents could take action to it.” Prof. Zhang also emphasized on the different method for weight reduction between children and adult. “Diet pills and blindly dieting is harmful for the growth of children. The weight of children should not be reduced sharply. Healthy diet and physical sport are the right way of losing weight for them.”