China News Service, Beijing, July 31 (Hao Lingyu) "Chinese Medical Nutritional Treatment Guidelines for Overweight/Obesity (2021)" was officially released in Beijing recently.
The guideline aims to provide clinical nutrition doctors with an efficient, evidence-based, and practical medical nutrition weight loss program.
With the continuous development of the economic level, overweight and obesity have become popular health problems in the whole society.
According to the latest "Report on Nutrition and Chronic Disease Status of Chinese Residents (2020)", overweight and obesity have become one of the prominent nutritional problems of Chinese people.
According to my country's standards, the overweight and obesity rates of residents of all age groups in urban and rural areas continue to rise, and more than half of the adult residents are overweight or obese.
Li Duo, chief professor of the Institute of Nutrition and Health of Qingdao University, pointed out the public's misunderstanding of weight loss at the launch ceremony.
He said that people who lose weight often get caught up in debates like eating meat or vegetarian food, and whether eating more intestinal bacteria is good for the body, ignoring the need for a reasonable diet.
He analyzed that in terms of maintaining a healthy weight, healthy Chinese people are more suitable for the low-fat, relatively high-carbohydrate diet consisting of macronutrients in the traditional Chinese diet.
Chen Wei, deputy director of the Clinical Nutrition Department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, said that the weight loss process must involve professional medical workers.
Combining scientific research results and professional practice, he shared how doctors help overweight/obese people to reduce and maintain weight from the perspectives of diet, exercise, behavior management, emotional cognition, etc., and pointed out that patients who lack medical guidance and family care are more likely to lose weight fail.
It is reported that the "Chinese Medical Nutritional Treatment Guidelines for Overweight/Obesity (2021)" is based on the 2016 "Consensus of Chinese Medical Nutritional Therapy for Overweight/Obesity". This is done in collaboration with scholars working in the fields of public health, nutrition and metabolism, as well as experts in multiple disciplines covering surgery, endocrinology, cardiovascular, nephrology, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics.
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