Body anxiety spawns business opportunities, training camp causes tragedy
When will the chaos in the "weight loss circle" stop?
Recently, the news that Zhang Meihui, a 20-year-old girl in Yilan County, Heilongjiang, died suddenly 15 days after joining the weight loss training camp is embarrassing!
In the first training session, Zhang Meihui lost more than 20 kilograms smoothly. Due to her weight rebound, she decided to participate in the training camp for the second time.
According to the original plan, Zhang Meihui entered the camp on July 15 and is expected to end the camp on August 6.
"I'm homesick, don't forget to pick me up on the 6th (August)!" This is Zhang Meihui's WeChat chat record with her mother on July 28, but the last time she communicated with her mother and daughter.
On July 30, the 15th day of participating in the training camp, Zhang Meihui died unexpectedly.
The tragedy has happened, but there are still many people who are trying to exchange health for a slim figure.
A reporter from Qilu Evening News and Qilu found that weight loss may have many adverse reactions and even cause irreversible harm to the body.
Qilu Evening News·Qilu One Point reporter Li Jing
Weight loss training camp chaos:
Seeking for quick success, lack of scientific method
It is reported that weight loss training camp is a new type of closed exercise weight loss organization, most of which adopt a semi-militarized model. Members who enter the camp are required to accept the diet and training plan provided by the training camp. According to a fixed schedule, no unauthorized entry or exit is allowed. And often the fees are high.
Weight-loss agencies are often over-packed.
On the short video platform, many brands of weight loss training camps can be seen publishing advertisements, often gimmicking "five-star hotel standards", but the actual training environment is seriously inconsistent with the publicity.
In the 360 weight loss training camp where Zhang Meihui is located, air conditioning is not installed in the training ground.
In addition, the entry barrier for gyms is low, and the qualifications of coaches have always been an important issue for weight loss training camps.
Although the results of Zhang Meihui's autopsy report have not yet been obtained, the organization itself has an inescapable responsibility for the sudden death of this 20-year-old girl in a weight loss training camp.
The "physical examination" and "gift life insurance" indicated in the training camp admission process have not been fulfilled.
After Zhang Meihui's sudden loss of consciousness, the coach drove her to the Harbin No. 2 Hospital, which is more than 20 kilometers away from the training camp. There were no medical staff and complete first aid measures in the training camp.
The hope that someone will monitor themselves every step of the way to lose weight is one of the reasons why most dieters choose to enter the training camp.
However, in order to achieve quick results, such weight-loss training camps often adopt "devil-style" supervision.
According to the students who participated in the "360 Weight Loss Training Camp" with Zhang Meihui, the training camp has a very large amount of exercise, but eats very little, which is actually a "diet".
"Eat half a steamed bun, a bowl of porridge and eggs every morning; three dishes at noon are all cold dishes; at night, give a yogurt and a fruit to eat." Diet and a lot of exercise make it easy to lose the scale quickly, but There is a big risk, after the trainees leave the camp, it is extremely easy to rebound.
Zhang Meihui is not alone in the tragedy of the weight loss training camp, and the reasons are very similar.
In 2015, 17-year-old Liaoyang girl Zhang Wanting, who had just finished the college entrance examination, entered the "weight loss concentration camp" and died suddenly by the swimming pool after 11 days of training.
The coaches in the training camp are not qualified and are hired as cleaners. The training mainly relies on high-load exercise and hunger. The daily exercise volume is larger than that of professional athletes, but a bowl of tofu soup is provided for dinner.
Diet pills are easily skinny and skinny?
Low-cost "sugar-coated cannonballs"
On the morning of August 13, the Shanghai Railway Transportation Court held a public hearing in the case of defendant Guo Meimei's sale of toxic and harmful diet sweets.
The arrest of Guo Meimei once again made the anti-obesity drug market, a counterfeit hardest hit area, public.
Every year, a large number of weight-loss drugs containing illegal ingredients enter the market wrapped in various fancy new concepts, and they have been repeatedly banned.
It is reported that the sibutramine involved in Guo Meimei's case belongs to a central nervous system depressant and was first used to treat depression.
It is clinically found that its weight-reducing effect is significantly better than its anti-depressant effect, so it is used in the research and development of weight-loss drugs to treat pathological obesity.
According to the introduction of the Shanghai police, the cost of the weight-loss drugs they sell is more than one pill, and it will reach more than 1,000 yuan per pill after the seventh level.
As early as 2010, because experts believed that the risks of using sibutramine for weight loss treatment were greater than the benefits, China stopped the domestic production, sales and use of sibutramine preparations and APIs, revoked its approval documents, and has been on the market. The manufacturing company is responsible for recalling and destroying the drugs.
However, driven by interests, the illegal sale of "diet pills" containing sibutramine has not been interrupted.
In 2017, a criminal suspect who sold sibutramine slimming capsules in Hunan confessed that the cost of each "slimming capsule" was less than 1 cent, but after wholesale, each capsule could be sold for three to five cents, with a gross profit of 200% to 300%.
The reporter searched on multiple platforms and found that there are many types of weight loss drugs, and the prices are different. Many of the propaganda homepages contain the words "suitable for impatient", "no diet or exercise, easy to lose weight" and other words, and some even directly indicate the curative effect. , "60 kg light at a time", "skinny to skinny" and so on.
In fact, many of the so-called high-efficiency "weight loss pills" and "Daiyou pills" mostly contain prohibited and controlled ingredients. Abuse may cause organ damage, cardiovascular disease, etc., resulting in irreversible damage. In severe cases, it will lead to death. Do not blindly follow the trend to buy and Use.
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Step by step into the weight loss pit
On the road to weight loss, people who lose weight will inevitably "go into the pit."
These "pits" often sound reasonable, but if you think about it carefully, it is likely to be some pseudoscience that is harmful to health.
Chen Qi (pseudonym) is a girl with a height of 158 cm and a weight of 126 kg. After entering the university, she saw slender girls who were still paying attention to body management, and felt inferior because of her overweight figure.
In order to lose weight quickly, she tried various ways.
At first, Chen Qi put on slimming cream all over his body, then tightly wrapped plastic wrap around his waist and abdomen, or put on slimming clothes, and then ran on the playground. "In summer, I feel like being wrapped in plastic wrap and burning, and I feel like I am breathing. Difficult".
Chen Qi's weight loss exercise once came to an end because of "want to be lazy", so she began to try acupuncture and cupping.
But her monthly living expenses are limited. Acupuncture costs 120 yuan a time, and the results are slow. She continues to try other "good quality and cheap" ways to lose weight.
Chen Qi bought a variety of weird weight-loss products, hot packs, enzyme jelly, probiotics, damp-removing tea, meal replacement shakes, and so on.
After a short diet, Chen Qi increased his appetite and his weight rebounded again, but his immunity declined.
Bigu is a "nightmare" for Chen Qi and his roommate.
Chen Qi said: "I bought that kind of brown sugar and drank it with my roommate to lose weight. But after drinking it, I always wanted to go to the bathroom, and I lost energy in class." Chen Qi's roommate suffered from stomach problems.
Who is "selling" body anxiety?
When will the tragedy of weight loss end?
Behind the tragedy of the sudden death of young girls in weight loss training camp, who created body anxiety?
Who is "selling" body anxiety?
Who will "pay the bill" for the tragedy?
In 2021, data from the National Health Commission shows that the current adult population in my country has overweight and obesity rates that exceed 50%, children and adolescents aged 6-17 are close to 20%, and children under 6 years old reach 10%. Overweight and obesity have become an impact on the health of Chinese residents. Important public health issue.
Obesity is related to health, coupled with body anxiety, some people who do not look fat also have the pressure to lose weight, and the enthusiasm for weight loss has been high.
Huge market demand has spawned business opportunities, but these products and services have created a lot of chaos and even threatened the health and lives of dieters.
According to related reports, the number of sleeve gastrectomy surgeries has surged in recent years.
Data show that in 2008, there were only 117 cases of weight loss and metabolic surgery carried out nationwide, but by 2020, it has soared to 12,837 cases, an increase of more than 100 times within ten years.
According to regulations, "sleeve stomach" surgery requires at least two metabolic syndromes, such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes, abnormal endocrine function, hyperuricemia, abnormal renal function, etc., and it is difficult to control through lifestyle changes and medical treatment. Can consider surgery.
However, experts have repeatedly emphasized that for people whose BMI (body mass index) is not up to standard and who do not have metabolic diseases such as diabetes, bariatric surgery is extremely harmful to their health.
The goal of weight loss should be health.
There are standards for health, but the initiative of health should be in our own hands.
Stomach surgery is not done once and for all, and it is likely to rebound after the weight loss training camp is "crash".
After all, the weight loss "fighters" who are troubled by obesity must strengthen self-management, reshape their eating habits and lifestyle, strengthen exercise, and lose weight scientifically. Only then will they be healthy and beautiful.
Therefore, it is still the same sentence, "Keep your mouth shut and move your legs away."