......Recently, at the A2 exit of Chengdu West Station of Metro Line 4, the medical staff of Supo Community Health Service Center moved the weight scale into the subway to weigh the citizens for free, and instructed everyone to use the body mass index carousel, distribute health promotion leaflets, and actively promote the health concept of paying attention to weight to residents.
"I know that being overweight is definitely not good for my health, but I don't understand the specific harms. When a man learned that his BMI was 26, he expressed the doubts that most people have. Hearing the man's words, Dong Zeyu, the medical worker who measured him, immediately popularized the concept of healthy weight.
"BMI is the number of physical fitness indicators, which is commonly used in the world to measure the degree of fat and thinness of the human body and whether it is healthy. Dong Zeyu explained that the BMI is calculated by dividing weight (kg) by height (m) squared, and for Chinese adults, the value is considered normal between 18.5 and 24, with slight differences for different age groups. However, if the BMI ≥ 28kg/㎡, it meets the obesity standard, which is easy to cause fatty liver, prediabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension and other diseases.
Dong Zeyu reminded the public to establish the concept of healthy eating. "In life, we should pay attention to reasonably controlling the intake of carbohydrates such as rice, flour and potatoes, but this is by no means the same as advocating not eating dinner and not eating staple foods, especially opposing the use ......of extreme methods such as vomiting and taking medicine to lose weight," Dong Zeyu said, weight is an important indicator to evaluate human nutrition and health status, and I hope that the public must pay attention to it and effectively manage their weight through reasonable diet, nutritional matching, scientific exercise, etc.
"Through the explanation of the medical staff, I learned a lot about healthy weight, and I know what to do next step to effectively control my weight and maintain my health. Ms. Zhang, a citizen, said.
It is reported that April 2024 is the 36th Patriotic Health Month, and this year's theme is "Healthy Town, Healthy Weight". In order to carry out more in-depth activities, the Qingyang District Health Office took the lead in organizing five community health service centers in Taisheng, Caoshi Yuhe, Caotang, Funan Jinsha and Supo to carry out the "healthy weight into the subway" activity in five subway stations in the district.
Photo courtesy of Supo Community Health Service Center