Is this obesity or what?
Nine-year-old Li Hang now sells flowers on the street in northeast China's Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, but he struggles to fit in with society as a result of a rare genetic disorder that has left him with a lifelong battle against obesity.
Li was born weighing slightly over 2.5 kg, which is normal. Yet at the age of three, he started to gain excessive weight and experienced a lack of emotion stability. Doctors, who said he was below average intelligence level for his age, diagnosed him with Prader-Willi Syndrome in 2012.
He successfully lost weight at a diet camp, but after regaining too much in March and with no effective solution, he received a mini-invasive bariatric surgery. He is now 143 kg, but his struggle continues.
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