Tonic, exercise and fitness, young people join the army of health preservation-
health is the greatest wealth (China Youth Watch⑦)
As long as you go out, whether you are outing or watching a performance, the "post-90s" girl Xiao Li will bring a thermos cup filled with chrysanthemum tea.
In her opinion, drinking hot tea can not only quench thirst, but also dispel fire. This habit has been maintained for 6 years since the senior year, which is "a lot of benefits."
Like Xiao Li, more and more young people are beginning to pay attention to health preservation.
Behind this reflects the young people's concern for their own health. While pursuing career progress, they also hope to have a healthy life and a strong body.
After all, health is the greatest wealth in life.
Physical and mental health are equally important
Get up at 7 in the morning, measure body fat, take vitamin tablets; eat a small bag of nuts as a snack in the morning; at lunch time, abstain from spicy and sweet foods, mainly coarse grains, light vegetables and pure lean meat; take a 1 hour nap after a meal; 3 in the afternoon Half, exercise for 1 hour; soak your feet before going to bed at night, get ready to fall asleep at 10:30.
This list of schedules and recipes belongs to Xiao Zhang, a doctoral student in the History Department of Peking University.
In the eyes of others, the life is dull, but Xiao Zhang is willing to say, "This is my secret to staying healthy."
Talking about why I am so self-disciplined, “When I first studied for Ph.D., my classwork was heavy and my study was under pressure. I often stayed up for several days to read the materials, and I needed a big cup of coffee to refresh my mind the next morning. "Xiao Zhang recalled.
Not only Xiao Zhang, there are many classmates with sub-healthy health around her, some of them are in poor mental state and need to be treated with drugs; some are plagued by lumbar muscle strain, which will have a big impact on future career choices... Various examples made her understand : If you want to be academic, you have to keep up with it both physically and mentally.
"So I improved my conditioning from three aspects: diet, exercise and sleep." Xiao Zhang told reporters that she followed many health bloggers on social media, gained relevant knowledge, and downloaded a well-received health e-book. Based on this, a plan was formulated, "After a period of persistence, the body has improved and the spirit is sufficient."
Xiao Zhang's experience is not alone.
Nowadays, more and more young people join the army of health preservation. Searching for "health preservation" on social media will find that the number of participants, the number of concerns, and the variety of methods are more than before.
From a quantitative point of view, "health preservation" is becoming a key word in the context of young people.
The "Report on Young People's Health Consumption Trends" launched at the end of 2020 shows that 33% of young people have health care or have become a living habit, and over ninety adults have health awareness.
The issues of concern are diversified.
The "Post-90s" Health Diary during the survey specifically understood the health demands of the interviewees.
The results show that body management and sleep improvement are high, skin health, gastrointestinal digestion, endocrine, etc. are also on the list; at the same time, sleep, hair loss, and oral problems have jumped to the top three high-growth health needs; physical health is highly valued, and psychological , Emotion management is not lagging behind.
At the beginning of 2020, the "2020 National Health Insight Report" issued by Dr. Dingxiang analyzed that young people's attention to anxiety, depression and other psychological problems is significantly higher than that of middle-aged and elderly people.
Food supplements, use of health care products, Chinese medicine conditioning, fitness exercises, massage and acupuncture...There are many ways to keep in good health, with different focus on different ways of keeping in good health.
According to another survey, purchasing equipment for home self-examination and regular physical examinations has also become an important way for young people to examine their own health.
Because everyone's living habits and physique are different, there are strong individual differences in youth regimen, but what remains unchanged is the pursuit of health.
Living better, studying and working better, and not letting the body and mind hold back is the fundamental purpose and basic principle of all people's health preservation.
The sooner the regimen, the better
When it comes to health preservation, Xiao Yuan is quite knowledgeable.
Although she is only 25 years old, she has put health preservation on the agenda since her freshman year and is a senior person in her circle of friends.
"At first, I just wanted to cultivate healthy living habits. I followed the experience shared by the Internet bloggers. I had a fashionable mentality. By the senior year, after several years of accumulation, I gradually believed that health preservation is a complicated science that allows I have a better life. So I will spend a lot of time researching the health regimen that suits me.” From then on, keeping health attentively and insisting on necessary maintenance has become Xiao Yuan’s “homemade meal”.
Fish oil capsules, vitamin D capsules, biotin jelly-she introduced to reporters her daily intake of nutrients and their effects: the first one is used to supplement Omega-3, which can reduce the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases; second; This enhances calcium absorption and makes up for the vitamin D deficiency that may be caused by eating less deep-sea fish and shrimp. As for the biotin gummy, Xiao Yuan said that it may only serve as a "placebo", but "at least it seems that the hair is more shiny than before. ".
In addition, she insisted on exercising every day, rain or shine.
Through interviews, it is found that in longitudinal comparison of people of different age groups, "post-60s", "post-70s" and even "post-80s" did not pay much attention to health preservation in their youth, and their awareness of health awakening was relatively late.
At the moment, the time to start health preservation is generally advanced, "post-90s" and even "post-00s" start to maintain health; at the same time, the concept of "post-90s" and "post-00s" is also deeper and richer, and "not getting sick" is no longer the only goal. The key is to have a high-quality living condition—good mood, good eating, sound sleep, delicate skin, good figure, and even hair.
Some netizens commented on this that contemporary young people’s lives are too delicate and even hypocritical, but this generational difference just represents a change in attitudes towards health preservation and health.
Investigating the reason, Gu Zhongyi, director of the Beijing Nutritionist Association, pointed out in an interview that this is not unrelated to the improvement of living standards and the social background with abundant material conditions.
"Everyone considers higher-level needs. Naturally, the concept of health care has shifted from seeing or experiencing illness to make up for it to prevention; the transition from basic health needs to quality life."
Wang Yue, deputy dean of the School of Medical Humanities, Peking University, believes that “peer groups play an important role in the process of socialization” and will further promote the transformation of young people's health concepts.
Once someone maintains their health, it may lead everyone to act together; once someone uses a more novel way of maintaining their health, everyone may try to accept it.
Xiao Ma, a 27-year-old employee of a state-owned enterprise, said that several friends and colleagues are drinking Chinese medicine to regulate the body, and the effect is good.
Under their influence, Xiao Ma moved his heart. "Friends will recommend several hospitals and some doctors. For us, exchanging this type of experience is as common as talking about eating, drinking, and having fun." Xiao Yuan also told reporters that he was serious about health care. I got some inspiration from my friends.
"Young people are open-minded and have a high acceptance of new things. What their relatives and friends do, as well as the actions of idols and Internet celebrities on a larger scale, will have a certain impact on them." Gu Zhongyi said.
Although health preservation is the behavior of each individual, it is also a social phenomenon that reflects the development of the times.
Not only pay attention to health preservation, young people also show a tendency to be more willing to pay for health preservation.
The 2020 "Youth Health Consumption Report" pointed out that nearly 60% of young people have a strong willingness to consume health, and diet and exercise are the "biggest".
The 31-35-year-old group of young people who are on the "edge" of young people have a willingness to spend close to 80%.
This has also subdivided the health-preserving consumption market. The youth health-preserving market is gradually growing, showing good consumption potential.
Wang Yue also used a set of data to support it, “In the sales volume of an e-commerce platform '6·18' last year, the sales of eye care products increased by 4126% compared with the same period of the previous year, and protein powder and vitamin products increased by 751% year-on-year. And 387%, of which the active users of "post-95s" and "post-00s" increased by 126% year-on-year."
Young people who are keen on consumption and health preservation have stimulated great vitality in the market. In turn, the market also provides more diversified products and services for the former.
Slimming, sports nutrition, eyesight improvement, probiotics and other types of health care products, nourishing health products such as donkey-hide gelatin, black sesame pills, blood pressure monitors, blood glucose meters and other home medical equipment, and health services such as sleep aid, fitness, acupuncture, and massage ……The demand for refined health preservation and the increasingly abundant market supply mutually promote each other, stimulating young people's higher pursuit of quality life.
Develop a reasonable schedule and habits is the best way
Health preservation is not the goal, but to better work, study and live.
However, some people are serious about health preservation, and some others engage in "formalism": they are afraid of getting angry and use herbal tea when eating hot pot; they can't sleep and take a lot of melatonin; go to the wine board and soak goji berries in the wine.
This kind of regimen that damages health while maintaining health is called "punk regimen."
"Punk health" young people think that with the help of external forces, they can make up for the loss caused by wanton indulgence.
However, "the effect of this model is minimal and it is just a psychological comfort." Wang Yue said.
Take sleep problems as an example.
The "2021 Sports and Sleep White Paper" conducted a survey of people from "post-80s" to "post-00s", and the results are worrying: the younger you are, the later you sleep.
About half of the "post-90s" people fall asleep after 12 midnight every day, more than half of "post-95s", and 57.1% of "post-00s", which means that nearly 60% of "post-00s" respondents stay up late.
Not only that, many people sleep less than 8 hours.
Good work and rest are not cultivated, but the enthusiasm for health preservation only increases. This pair of contradictions is vividly reflected in the "punk health preservation" youth.
According to statistics from related websites, the amount of "post-90s" buying health appliances is increasing, but they are used to placing orders at midnight.
In this regard, netizens commented that perhaps to make up for the guilt of reluctance to go to bed and get up early, young people would buy a health appliance at 12 midnight after the last time they swiped their phone, and set a small goal by the way: health preservation starts tomorrow.
“Among them, there are those who are under pressure to study and work and have to stay up late, but there are also young people who have not grasped the core of health care and only superficially'copy' health care strategies." Gu Zhongyi pointed out that staying up late will lead to immune function, memory, and reaction. The strength decreases, and it takes a certain time to recover; on the other hand, it can disrupt the biological rhythm, leading to neurasthenia, insomnia, etc.
In this regard, he suggested a scientific regimen and systematic improvement of the regularity of work and rest.
Aiming at some young people’s "superstitious" health products and traditional Chinese medicine food supplements, Liu Hui, assistant to the president of the China Quality Inspection Association, said that health foods can regulate the functions of the human body, but they are not aimed at curing diseases. Rely on health care products; you should not mix food supplements and traditional Chinese medicine to regulate your body without the doctor's advice. After all, the best way to maintain your health is to develop a reasonable routine and habits.
Wang Jingyue