From February 25th to 29th, the Boao Health Food Science Conference and Expo was held in Boao, Hainan.
2024 Boao Health Food Science Conference and Expo opens
This conference is based on the "National Nutrition Plan (2017-2030)" and focuses on the dissemination of scientific evidence. It brings together 15 academicians including Chen Junshi, 300 reporting experts, and more than 2,000 participating representatives to discuss industry development plans. Discuss how to promote the high-quality development of the health food industry through scientific and technological innovation leadership and international exchanges and cooperation under the strategic background of building a "Healthy China" in 2035.
Under the new trend of quality consumption and pragmatic consumption, the Chinese dining table is accelerating the upgrade from eating enough, eating well, to eating healthily. More and more consumers are willing to pay for healthy food with scientific basis and empirical results.
The conference focused on healthy food and set up 40 forums, covering many hot topics such as health food regulations and policies, new food raw materials, nutrition and health care, food and drug origin, special medical food, etc. It focused on presenting food from basic scientific research, functional innovation, to products. How to achieve scientific evidence that is beneficial to health through the scientific process, and create an integrated platform that integrates scientific exchanges, achievement display, and industry docking.
2024 Beware of the Hidden “Killer” of Health—Metabolic Syndrome
You have a car to travel, take the elevator upstairs, order takeout for three meals, and stay up late to check your mobile phone... The convenience and wealth of life have led to sedentary life, overnutrition, and irregular work and rest, which has given rise to a health problem that cannot be ignored - metabolic syndrome. .
According to the definition of the World Health Organization, metabolic syndrome is a metabolic disorder of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and other substances in the human body under the combined effect of genetic factors and environmental factors, resulting in abdominal obesity, insulin resistance, high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, and high uric acid. Characteristic pathological conditions.
Diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome:
Abdominal obesity: waist circumference ≥90 cm for men and ≥85 cm for women;
BMI ≥ 25, high blood sugar: fasting blood sugar 6.1 mmol/L or above and/or 2-hour postprandial blood sugar ≥ 7.8 mmol/L, or diabetic patients who have started treatment;
High blood pressure: above 140/90 mmHg, or patients who have been diagnosed with hypertension;
Fasting triglycerides are above 1.7 mmol/L;
Fasting high-density lipoprotein cholesterol is below 1.04 mmol/L (female) and 0.9 mmol/L (male);
If any 3 or more of the above 5 diagnostic criteria are met after a doctor’s diagnosis and treatment, the patient can be diagnosed with metabolic syndrome.
Metabolic syndrome is the root cause of most chronic diseases. The overweight and obesity rate among adult residents in my country exceeds 50%. There are approximately 330 million patients with cardiovascular diseases and over 260 million patients with chronic diseases. The number of deaths caused by chronic diseases has accounted for 86.6% of the total number of deaths in the country. , the resulting disease burden accounts for 70% of the total disease burden.
The data is cold and the facts are heartbreaking. How to break it?
How to break metabolic syndrome and achieve long-term health and well-being?
In response to this health issue of general public concern, at the Phytonutrients and Metabolic Health Forum, Professor Cha Longying of Southern Medical University, Deputy Chief Physician Yang Jinggang of Fuwai Hospital, Dr. Tian Xiangyang of China Health Education Center, Dr. Kan Juntao of Amway Science and Technology Innovation Center, etc. Experts, based on a large number of scientific experiments and cohort studies, shared evidence-based evidence and product development practices from the perspectives of lifestyle, phytonutrients, plant protein intervention and improvement of metabolic disorders.
Dr. Kan Juntao from Amway Science and Technology Innovation Center introduces product development practices for improving metabolic syndrome
Experts believe that only when the human body's metabolism is "stable" can the body be "stable and stable": developing a healthy lifestyle, a balanced diet, and supplementing as needed, especially a reasonable intake of phytonutrients and increasing the intake of plant protein, are positive for improving metabolic syndrome. Effect. Dr. Kan Juntao introduced that Amway has developed an innovative product for metabolic syndrome based on multiple cohort studies and scientific literature evidence from the United States, Canada, Finland, Singapore and other countries. Its core raw materials are plants that are strongly related to human metabolism. Protein (chickpea protein, mung bean protein, brown rice protein), and also contains metabolism-enhancing phytonutrients (apple polyphenols), which can reduce total cholesterol, blood lipids, and insulin resistance at the cellular level, regulate glycolipid and protein metabolism balance, and improve metabolism. disorders and maintain metabolic homeostasis.
Improving metabolic syndrome ultimately depends on a healthy lifestyle
The "Guidelines for the Integrated Diagnosis and Treatment of Metabolic Syndrome" released in 2023 show that the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in people aged 20 and above in my country is as high as 31.1%, confirming the high incidence of metabolic syndrome in our country, and it is younger and more common. trend, highlighting the threat that metabolic syndrome poses to individual health.
WHO research shows that 60% of health and longevity depend on lifestyle.
A healthy lifestyle is the best "health regimen" and an important means to prevent and improve metabolic syndrome.
Against this background, many leading companies in the health industry regard promoting the public's healthy lifestyle and promoting the transformation of my country's public health industry from treatment to prevention as an important strategic focus.
According to reports, Amway's corporate vision is to "help people live a healthier and better life." The company responds to the national strategy of building a "Healthy China" and regards "comprehensive health promoter" as its corporate development positioning.
In recent years, Amway has continued to train and empower its health entrepreneurs. The company's online "Health Charity Academy" has brought together 2.7 million people; more than 60,000 nutrition and health consultants have been trained and certified by the Chinese Nutrition Society, and hundreds of thousands of them have created A "big health community" disseminates scientific health knowledge, provides personalized health solutions, and promotes the development of healthy living habits, thereby driving the public to continuously improve their health literacy and practice healthy lifestyles.
Amway's big health community business model has subverted the single business model of the health industry that only sells standardized products and services, driving consumers to turn knowledge into actions and actions into habits, making every healthy community full of vitality. Become a social grassroots unit that promotes the construction of healthy cities and healthy China, bring health to thousands of households, and drive millions of people to enjoy health and a better life.
NUTRILITE celebrates its 90th anniversary and continues to write a new chapter in Chinese vegetation civilization
2024 marks the 90th anniversary of the founding of Nutrilite, the world's leading vitamin and dietary supplement brand. Nutrilite's brand concept is derived from China's traditional Chinese medicine theory and traditional health philosophy.
In 1915, American young man Carl Hongbang came to China and found that farmers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang picked alfalfa sprouts for food. The working class who stapled vegetables were generally healthier and less susceptible to chronic diseases.
After studying the traditional Chinese medicine theory that medicine and food come from the same source, he firmly believed that plants contain nutrients necessary for the human body. In 1934, he developed the world's first multivitamin and multimineral products in the United States and founded the Nutrilite brand.
Nutrilite has always been committed to researching green nutrition and continuing plant culture.
Since entering the Chinese market in 1995, Amway has continued to explore the benefits of traditional Chinese herbal medicine on human health, setting up R&D centers in Guangzhou and Shanghai. In 2015, it invested 200 million yuan to build the Amway China Plant R&D Center in Wuxi?
, to form a full-chain innovation capability covering Chinese herbal medicine selection, breeding, organic plant planting, formula safety and efficacy, to process development and quality control, and build the core of the integration of traditional wisdom and modern science?
R&D system.
In 2024, Amway Nutrilite will continue to expand and deepen this work after realizing my country's first large-scale space breeding of Chinese herbal medicine crops last year. "Selected Seeds" will inject strong efforts into germplasm innovation of Chinese herbal medicine crops, standardization and internationalization of Chinese medicine. Powerful technological momentum has pushed plant breeding, the source of plant nutrition research and development, to a new level; at the same time, Amway will invest in and build its first own organic farm in China to make better use of China's rich plant resources and promote smart organic farming. Agriculture, build a modern innovation base for Chinese herbal medicine, continuously enrich Chinese solutions through product innovation, and export Chinese wisdom through global marketing networks to benefit global consumers.