Get rid of obesity! Kaohsiung City People Challenge to Lose 85 Tons

Let’s all lose weight together in a healthy way! The Health Bureau held the "Vibrant Kaohsiung, Leap into Health" weight control launch ceremony on the 11th. Deputy Mayor Li Yongde led the crowd in announcing that the city's healthy weight loss goal is to challenge 85 metric tons this year. It is important to emphasize healthy eating and more exercise than to lose a certain number of kilograms. I hope that everyone can lose weight in a healthy way.

The problem of childhood obesity in schools is becoming increasingly serious. This year, the Kaohsiung Health Bureau has cooperated with the Education Bureau to promote a healthy body posture plan for students. 19 colleges and universities and 374 high schools and below will promote weight control activities on campus, which has attracted much attention.

Deputy Mayor Li Yongde pointed out that obesity is a result of accumulation over time, so losing weight is not something that can be achieved overnight, and it must be completed step by step, stage by stage. Rapid weight loss is mostly an illusion created by dehydration, which not only makes it easy to gain weight again, but also causes physiological and metabolic disorders, thereby damaging your health and making it more difficult to lose weight next time.

Therefore, weight loss must be carried out in a gradual process, starting with adjusting physiological metabolism and then steadily and effectively reducing body weight and body fat. This is the healthy and effective way to lose weight, and only in this way can you truly achieve "healthy and slim, and enjoy slimness and health".

Director He Qigong of the Kaohsiung City Health Bureau stated at the event that the city's healthy weight loss target last year was 103 metric tons, and the result was a weight loss of 108.5 tons, far exceeding the planned performance. Among them, the city's workplaces reduced weight by 61 metric tons, accounting for about one-third of the 172 metric tons in the country. The Kaohsiung City Police Department and the Environmental Protection Bureau won the first and third place in the National Workplace Weight Loss Excellence Award.

However, in view of the increasing number of obese students on campus, the Department of Health has also cooperated with the Education Bureau this year to promote a healthy body posture plan for students. 19 colleges and universities and 374 high schools and below will promote weight control activities on campus, including providing nutritionally balanced diets and health education, and guiding weight loss and fat-burning exercises, etc., in the hope that healthy weight loss can take root on campus.

The number of schools participating in healthy weight loss has increased more than six times this year. Campus weight loss may have labeling sequelae. The two bureaus of health and education have reached a consensus that they will not set up new weight loss classes, but will provide relevant weight loss consultation and services to the existing classes to reduce the psychological pressure on overweight students.

Director He Qigong also called for overweight and obesity to be the main risk factors for chronic diseases, which can be accompanied by serious cardiovascular and nutritional metabolic diseases, and increase the risk of at least nine types of cancer. In Taiwan, seven of the top 10 causes of death are related to obesity.

Healthy weight loss must start with improving the body's metabolic function. Improving metabolic function and restoring a healthy state is the fundamental goal of weight loss. When the metabolic function improves, the body weight will naturally be adjusted. In particular, the weight loss number is not important. The fundamental way to develop people's healthy physique is to root the concepts of correct weight control, balanced diet and proper exercise in schools and cultivate correct concepts among the whole nation from an early age.