A few days ago, the health care products of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Company, a well-known Japanese pharmaceutical company, were revealed to contain red yeast ingredients, and many people were confirmed dead in this incident. The Modern Express reporter noticed that eating health products has become popular among young people. According to the Blue Book of Health Management: China's Health Management and Health Industry Development Report No.6 (2023~2024), young people are becoming the main force of health consumption, with the average annual expenditure of permanent residents in most cities in China for health and wellness exceeding 1,000 yuan, and the proportion of young consumers aged 18~35 is as high as 83.7%.
Among the young people, after searching on the Internet, some of them match themselves with health care products and carry small pill boxes every day. There are also people who directly buy the "small medicine bag" that the merchant has matched. Those who don't eat health products will choose stewed soup, drink traditional Chinese medicine, massage and baduanjin. "To be healthy is to live. Young netizens ridiculed that they usually exercise less, often stay up late, and feel that their health is getting worse and worse, so they choose various ways to "repair" themselves. However, experts also remind that it is best to go to the hospital to test whether you lack these nutrients before taking it, and do not blindly follow the trend.
Vitamins, folic acid, fish oil......
Many young people carry small pill boxes in their bags
Nowadays, when you open the bags brought by young people, in addition to mobile phones and headphones, you can often find thermos cups and small medicine boxes. The small box with a partition inside is only the size of a palm, but the contents are varied. There are common vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C, calcium tablets and cod liver oil, etc., as well as folic acid and iron tablets that are relatively less eaten.
△ Carry a small pill box
When young people get together, in addition to fashion, film and television entertainment, health care also has a place in the topic. "If you don't have the strength to do so, you can take some vitamin E supplements. "I've been losing a lot of hair lately, so I can take some vitamin D." "Fish oil is also good, and it is said that it can replenish the brain. "When it comes to physical discomfort symptoms and treatment methods, many young people can speak quite expertly, share their health care experience, and send each other links to buy health products online.
Ms. Lu, who lives in Nantong, is nearly 30 years old and regularly reads health-related information, and now she takes calcium and iron tablets every day. "I take calcium tablets because I am usually in the office during the day, and there are fewer opportunities to bask in the sun, and it is said on the Internet that I can drink some milk and eat some calcium tablets to make up for it, otherwise I may have osteoporosis. It's not expensive to buy, it's the cheapest kind in the pharmacy. Ms. Lu told the Modern Express reporter that she took iron tablets every day because she thought she was deficient in iron. She habitually drinks one or two cups of coffee every day, and on social platforms, she saw that some popular science said that coffee will affect the body's absorption of iron. Combined with her own symptoms such as tiredness and headaches, she thought that she should be deficient in iron, so she bought iron tablets to replenish herself.
"Actually, I don't feel any effect, but it shouldn't hurt to eat it, so I just eat it. Ms. Lu said that many colleagues of the same age around her are also taking various small pills according to their own conditions to supplement trace elements. Because I am worried about gray hair, some colleagues will buy folic acid tablets to take them. In the merchant's purchase link, it is clearly marked with the words "white hair makes up for black hair", and many netizens said that it does have an effect after eating.
Some are troublesome, and directly buy the "small medicine bag" that the merchant has matched. Modern Express reporter learned that some Japanese businesses have launched "customized" combination health care products for different groups such as women after the age of 30 and men after the age of 30. For women over the age of 30, for example, each sachet contains 7 different supplements, including vitamins B and C, iron and folic acid, GABA and coenzyme Q10, emulsified DHA and hydroxytyrosol, etc., which are quite popular in the market.
Stewed soup, Chinese medicine, Baduan brocade
Young people "fight" for health
Some young people believe more in traditional "food supplement" therapy. Ms. Wu, who lives in Wuxi, usually stews soup and makes health tea according to the recipes on the Internet when she is free, focusing on a long-term nourishment.
Ms. Wu's stew
"For the past two days, the old hen has been stewed, and some yams have been put in. Two days ago, my body was 'yang', and I felt that I needed to eat some nutritious supplements. You can usually put some astragalus and wolfberry in the soup, and I don't have much energy in the past two days, so I simply stewed it. Ms. Wu said that she basically does not eat health products, but she has prepared various stew soup ingredients all year round, as well as dampness tea, barley tea, etc. Because of the cold nature of her body, Ms. Wu pays more attention to her daily diet, and she also has a lot of taboos, and she doesn't eat much watermelon in summer, and she doesn't drink cold drinks or ice cream all year round. Even if you go out in hot weather, you will order a hot drink with the lowest sugar content when you go to a bubble tea shop.
Ms. Wu will work overtime and stay up late from time to time, coupled with the high pressure of work and the fast pace of life, she feels that her hair loss has increased significantly in the past two years. "In fact, many of them are common to young people, such as hair loss, heart palpitations, dizziness, etc., and there are many of them around me. Ms. Wu told the Modern Express reporter that some people will also go to see a Chinese medicine doctor and take some Chinese medicine to prescribe the right medicine. There are also those who will stew soup and eat supplements like her, and those who are more free will be healthy and fitness, and the recent Baduanjin has been very popular. Moxibustion and massage have also become popular items for many young people to experience.
"Health care for the elderly may be for longevity, and health care for us may be for living. Ms. Wu joked that now many diseases have begun to be younger, and when the body has uncomfortable symptoms, it should not be serious enough to need medical attention, so many people will choose to consult and communicate with each other on social platforms, coupled with the advertising of various health care product businesses, so that health care has become a trend among young people. But everyone actually knows in their hearts that the best way to maintain health is to sleep more, exercise more, and eat less takeout, but it is true that many people can't do it, so they seek solutions in this way.
Expert Reminder:
It depends on whether the body is lacking, and then decides whether to make up for it
On April 8, a reporter from Modern Express interviewed Zhou Qunyan, director of the Clinical Nutrition Department of Wuxi People's Hospital.
According to Zhou Qunyan, it is found that many young people like to take health products such as multivitamin tablets, "We understand that some people may have an unbalanced intake of food nutrition, and it is recommended to take multivitamin tablets." However, it is best to go to the hospital to check whether we are deficient in these nutrients before taking it. For example, water-soluble vitamins, fat-soluble vitamins and other indicators can be checked. Zhou Qunyan said that there are many people who observe 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency in their daily work, such as some people who can't bask in the sun or can't drink milk, so it is definitely recommended to consult a nutritionist to supplement vitamin D and calcium.
Regarding the health preservation method that some young people love to make health soup, Zhou Qunyan said that they should also pay attention not to blindly make up for it. "For example, if you use some wolfberries and yams in the soup, it is generally not a big problem, but if more Chinese medicinal materials are involved, then it is recommended to ask a Chinese medicine practitioner to check it. You need to ask a Chinese medicine practitioner to make a judgment on what kind of physique you are through syndrome differentiation and give a correct suggestion. ”
Zhou Qunyan reminded young people not to follow the trend of health preservation. "For example, we have also met some patients in the outpatient clinic who have impaired liver and kidney function after taking health care products, and some people will naturally get better after stopping health care products. ”
Regarding scientific health advice, Zhou Qunyan also put forward a few ideas. "We must pay attention to a healthy lifestyle, that healthy lifestyle is first to eat, we recommend to pay attention to a balanced diet, that is to say, you should eat three meals a day regularly and quantitatively, we must have staple foods for each meal, there are meat dishes, vegetables, according to the 2022 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents, we recommend eating more than 12 kinds of food every day, and more than 25 kinds of food per week. At the same time, Zhou Qunyan suggested that everyone should take time to do an appropriate amount of exercise every day after work, and it is recommended to walk 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day. "Young people should also pay attention to getting enough sleep and being in a good mood. There are many people who like to stay up late, relying on eating a lot of health products in the later stage to make up for recuperation, and staying up late while maintaining health, which is very unscientific. Experts say that health preservation should start with basic internal adjustment.
Modern Express/Modern + Reporter Yan Junchen Zhu Jingrun