Asians disfigured trying to get taller
Apparently Chinese businessmen are desperate to get taller and are willing to go through Braveheart-like stretching torture to do so.
Ten people were reported to have been disfigured after they underwent stretching surgery last year, it added.
The operation, which involves breaking the patient’s legs and then stretching them on a rack, has become popular among young professionals “desperate to climb up the ladder in the country’s height-conscious society,” Xinhua said, without trying to pull anyone’s leg.
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