The Chinese GIRL toddler who weighs 6.5st at the age of two

She may be just two years old, but Pang Ya is already tipping the scales at 6.5st.

The toddler’s size means she now weighs the same as an average female Chinese adult.

Although her alarmed parents admit that their daughter has a healthy appetite, they are desperate for help.





Her father said: ‘Doctors can’t figure out the reasons for her obesity, which worries us a lot.’

Pang Ya, who is from Taocun town, Shanxi province, was born weighing an average eight pounds.

A recent government survey declared there are 60 million obese people in China, with the number doubling between 1992 and 2002.

Two years ago the country got its first Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food restaurant.

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Amazing Enlightened Chinese farmer branches out by growing pears shaped like baby Buddha

For Britain's struggling fruit farmers, things could be about to go even more pear-shaped...

A Chinese farmer has invented baby-shaped pears - and he is planning to export his novel idea over here.

Plucky farmer Gao Xianzhang has created 10,000 of the mini marvels this season and he plans to take the fruits of his labour to the UK and Europe.

Britain could soon see the arrival of the pears, which are shaped like mini buddhas.

If the idea catches on, sales of the mini pears could hit the profits of British farmers who are already struggling to fend off sales of cheaper foreign produce in recession-hit Britain.

Gao spent six years perfecting the intricate baby-shaped pears, carefully crafting each one which grows inside an individual mould.

Despite their hefty cost of £5 each, locals in his home village of Hexia, in Hebia, northern China, have reportedly been snapping them up.

'People seem to think they are cute or lucky and will buy them as soon as they're off the tree,' Gao explained.

Luckily for Gao, he should have few problems getting his quirky shaped fruits past EU officials.

In July, wonky shaped fruit and vegetables such as curvy cucumbers and knobbly carrots returned to supermarket shelves after EU rules restricting the size and shape of 36 types of fruit and vegetables

For the last 20 years, EU-wide marketing standards have encouraged the sale of finest-looking produce for sale in shops.

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