Author | hikaru edits | Yan Ruyi
In September, the students return to school for a long summer vacation, and many people will meet their classmates with a new look.
But Xiaohui, a female college student, could no longer go back to school.
Just a month ago, Xiao Hui, who had just celebrated her 20th birthday, with the dream of "gorgeous turnaround", died suddenly in a weight loss institution called "360 Weight Loss Training Camp" in Harbin.
In the video reported by the media, Xiaohui's mother fell to her knees at the door of the training camp crying, opening her arms and calling for her daughter to come home.
But unfortunately, this time, Xiaohui could no longer hold her mother's hand and go home as before.
How did the weight loss training camp, which carries the dreams of countless young girls to become a perfect transformation, become a deadly concentration camp?
The intertwined reasons behind this are impossible to ignore.
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Xiao hui, born in 2001, inherited the large skeleton body shape of her parents, and after entering puberty, she began to slowly gain weight.
Before the accident, Xiaohui, who was 168 tall, weighed 90 kilograms at one point.
Because of her stature, Xiaohui has been shy and introverted since she was a child, does not like to talk much, and her usual dating circle is relatively small. But she has a good temper and loves to laugh, and she is a "good old man" who is kind and easy to get along with in the eyes of everyone.
In 2019, Xiaohui was admitted to a university in Harbin. She wanted to show her new friends a new look, so she signed up for a 360 weight loss camp on the Internet.
After nearly a month of "hellish training", Xiaohui lost nearly 30 pounds.
But after leaving the training camp, Xiaohui's weight quickly rebounded. So, this summer, she signed up for another training camp.
According to the schedule plan of the weight loss training camp, from entering the camp on July 15 to ending on August 6, Xiaohui should lose at least 20 pounds.
On July 28, Xiaohui's 20th birthday, she and her mother video chatted about their weight loss progress, and also told her family to remember to pick herself up early on the day of the end of the training camp.
"I miss home, no. 6 don't forget to pick me up!"
No one expected that this video call would become the final farewell between mother and daughter.
Two days later, in the early morning, Xiaohui's mother received a call from the training camp, and the person in charge asked her to come to Harbin quickly, "Your daughter smoked."
Along the way, the family kept receiving calls asking about Xiaohui's past medical history, and everyone expected that Xiaohui only ate less and caused hypoglycemia.
But when they arrived in Harbin, they were told that Xiaohui had no vital signs on the way to the hospital.
Xiaohui's roommate told them that at 6 o'clock in the morning, Xiaohui got up and washed up and fainted on the ground shortly after. The roommates quickly called for the coach to save the man.
But the training camp did not give Xiaohui first aid, nor did it call 120, but only used a private car to send Xiaohui to the hospital.
Xiaohui's family felt that the training camp had a great responsibility.
First of all, before Xiaohui entered the camp for the second time, the instructors did not give her a full body examination on the grounds that Xiaohui had done an examination two years ago. It is also this missed physical examination that makes Xiaohui die "unclear and not white".
Secondly, in the fully enclosed military-style management of the weight loss training camp, there was no medical staff, so that Xiaohui failed to get first aid at the first time.
Finally, under the high-intensity training of the boot camp, a reasonable diet is the basis for maintaining health. But in this weight loss camp, there is no nutritionist, and the trainees have only one standard of diet: hunger.
"Eat half a steamed bun, a bowl of porridge and eggs in the morning; three dishes at noon, all cold dishes; in the evening, give a yogurt to drink and give a fruit to eat."
But the bootcamp constantly shirks its responsibilities.
They refused to provide surveillance footage of the incident on the grounds of protecting the privacy of the trainees.
The coach in charge of "resolving" the matter said the camp was not responsible: "Her bad luck is that your child died."
Out of the humanitarian spirit, the training camp is willing to pay 50,000 yuan to the family as a condolence payment. "But after taking the money, you can no longer hold the training camp legally responsible."
Xiao hui's family wanted to go through the judicial process, only to find that as early as the first day of entering the camp, the contract had been taken away by the head of the training camp under the pretext of "convenient preservation".
On the morning when Xiaohui fainted, what happened in the training camp; what she experienced in the ten days of the training camp, now has become a mystery, and Xiaohui's parents can only wait for the final autopsy result.
But if you look closely at the news related to the weight loss training camp, you will find that the tragedy that happened to Xiaohui is not an isolated case.
Every year, the people who are injured and disabled in the weight loss training camp, or even lose their lives, are far more than Xiaohui.
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In the first class of Liaocheng No. 3 Middle School in Shandong Province, Zhang Yifan, who was only 16 years old at the time, suddenly fainted in the classroom.
The school immediately sent him to the hospital for rescue, but failed to pull Zhang Xiaofan back from the death line.
Father Zhang, who was still happy to send his children to school in the morning, did not believe it, but in just two short periods of time, he experienced the pain of white-haired people sending black-haired people.
When cooperating with the police in the investigation of the cause of death, the Zhang family believed that Zhang Yifan's death was related to the weight loss training camp he was attending.
In order to lose weight, Zhang Yifan participated in a weight loss training camp organized by a private hospital in the summer and experienced 41 days of "hellish training".
According to Zhang Yifan's description after returning home, the training camp required them to undergo five or six hours of high-intensity training every day in order to complete the weight loss task.
The high-protein nutritious meals in the propaganda did not appear, and the meat, eggs and milk in the students' meals were pitifully small.
Zhang Yifan's classmates said that the staple food of their daily breakfast is only a "very small and very small" small steamed bun, and there is only about one or two rice at lunch, and the amount of dishes is similar to the staple food.
Nutrition is completely unable to provide high-intensity training, and the trainees have experienced many dangerous situations of low blood sugar and chest tightness and shortness of breath.
But in the mouth of the instructor, these are "for your own good" and "normal phenomena".
After 34 days of training, Zhang Yifan began to have symptoms of vomiting up and down diarrhea and body aches, and the coach continued to encourage him to persevere.
Gritting his teeth and insisting on it for 6 days, he really couldn't hold on, and Zhang Yifan ended his training and went home early. When he got home, his vomiting and diarrhea did not decrease, and his father called the training camp many times, and the reply was: "Normal phenomenon, a little adjustment can be restored." ”
As a result, 3 days later, the 16-year-old died of cardiac arrest in class.
High-intensity training and extremely low calorie intake are almost all weight loss camps to achieve "20 pounds of weight loss in 20 days".
However, such a huge heat difference in the short term, the damage to the body, should not be underestimated. Even if you get lucky enough to get a life back, the painful memories of being in the bootcamp will last a lifetime.
On the Internet, many trainees have exposed their experiences to make people look at the sweaty handstand.
For the students of the bootcamp, fainting, fractures, fainting, contusion, and heat stroke are all commonplace.
A Little Red Book blogger, when recalling his 28-day closed training, even used words such as "don't look at us as people" and "severe heart pain".
In terms of knowledge, there are also witnesses who have described the situation of being severely warned by doctors after being sent to the hospital due to severe malnutrition.
But these life-threatening warnings were never taken seriously by the camp staff, but were seen by them as a manifestation of "conscientiousness and responsibility" in their work.
Afraid that the trainees would steal food in private, the instructors would check their sleep in the middle of the night and look through the garbage cans.
In order to arouse the enthusiasm of the students, the instructors will also work out a weekly crown and a monthly crown evaluation system in groups, and the weighing results of twice a day will also be announced on the wall.
Students who do not meet the numerical requirements will be assigned to practice. In order to remove edema, the instructors will restrict the students' drinking water and ask them to take a sauna.
What should I do if the student does not obey?
Some boot camps take out the killer skills directly: Fight!
In 2015, Xiao Jian in Yichang, Hubei Province, was sent by his family to a weight loss training camp, and three days later, 14-year-old Xiao Jian died of acute kidney failure due to crush syndrome caused by multiple soft tissue injuries throughout the body.
In the face of evidence, the training camp finally admitted that 8 instructors were involved in the beating of Xiao Jian, and the initial cause of the conflict was only Xiao Jian's shouting and tiredness while practicing on foot.
In order to find out the reasons behind the chaotic situation of these weight loss training camps, some reporters have secretly visited under the pretext of applying for employment.
In a weight loss training camp that charges 5980 yuan, the person in charge directly stepped over the height and weight test after asking the reporter's past work experience, and did not put forward the requirement to view the qualification certificate throughout the process.
In another "net red" training camp, the reporter met the internet celebrity coach and founder who claimed to have slimmed from 100 kilograms to 50 kilograms.
While she worked hard to tell her experience of losing weight through dieting and crazy exercise, she passed on to the trainees the life experience of "if you can't even control your weight, how to control your life".
But the reporter found in her circle of friends that the so-called "experienced" coach only participated in the 7-day nutrition course training half a year ago.
The weight loss camp she founded was "hard to find."
The reason behind it, in addition to the excellent marketing methods, is also because she has captured the mentality of the current dieters and hit the seven inches of people's hearts.
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Are people really not aware of the drastic means of these weight loss camps and are "tricked" into it?
Maybe not.
Enter the words "weight loss training camp" on the Internet, and the top ads and articles have words such as "hell" and "devil" that make people palpitate.
People are not afraid of the devil and hell, but they are afraid of their uncontrolled bodies.
After all, being thin means being beautiful and disciplined, while being fat is often considered lazy and not trying.
The 360 weight loss training camp attended by Xiaohui has released many short videos of enrollment promotion.
The video is written in a variety of ways about the benefits of being thin, and the slogan "Society can accept that you are ugly, but cannot accept that you are fat".
Each one is exacerbating body anxiety.
Weight-weight weight losers must control their weight for health, but girls who are not fat cannot escape the brainwashing of weight loss training camps.
In many videos, the training camp is showing the effectiveness of "small base number through the platform period".
Even underage children they do not let go. Some of the students in the weight loss training camp are only 10 years old.
People's body anxiety has become the wealth code of the training camp.
In fact, tying the body and personality is ignorant and even "vicious".
Genetic factors can account for 40 to 70 percent of obesity factors, which means that for some people, just maintaining a healthy weight requires a hundred times more effort.
What's worse is that under the overwhelming "grasp the weight to grasp life" propaganda, some people began to pursue the thinner the better.
A pair of "BM Girls Height and Weight Comparison Table" circulated on the Internet, the weight of a 160 girl corresponds to 43kg, which is equivalent to the normal weight of a 12-year-old girl. The BMI index is only 16.7, well below the normal lower limit of 18.5.
How desperate are they trying to get thinner?
In Baidu's vomiting bar, tens of thousands of "rabbits" were once gathered.
The most important thing they do every day is to fill their stomachs and go to the toilet to spit it out. The feeling of emptiness in their stomachs is their greatest source of security.
But along with vomiting comes gastroesophageal reflux, hypokalemia, metabolic disorders, self-loathing...
Do your best, do not hesitate to hurt the body, and even endanger your life, just to chase after others' "You are so thin".
Is it only body shape that is the only criterion in this world?
Of course not, there are so many things that can make you a sparkling person. There is no single standard in this world to measure whether a person is good or not.
You can not use iPhone legs, A4 waist, or you can not have standard height, large legs.
Becoming a thin person does not mean how good a person is, and in the same way, as long as there is more fat on the body within the range of health, it does not represent the failure of life.
On the basis of not affecting health, what kind of beauty should be presented in their own body, this ruler should have been in their own hands.
Use the strength to fight food against brainwashing marketing that creates anxiety.
Shift your gaze from looking at yourself to this vast world, and you will see that there are many kinds of beauty in this world.
Every beauty is precious enough.
"May you remember your preciousness when you are struck, resist malice, and listen to your heart."