Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 15th.

Question : Eating "bird meal" and doing aerobics... Chinese families set off a new trend of health

  Xinhua News Agency reporter Tian Xiaohang

  "Carbohydrates are not enough for fruits, grains are rotated to smooth the intestines, less salt and less sugar are young and beautiful, and protein is often strong in body..." This is the family diet concept of Zhang Zhuoran, an office worker born in the 1980s in Beijing.

In her opinion, developing healthy eating habits and making every happy day start with a healthy breakfast will lead to a happy life.

  Family is the warm harbor of life, and good family style is fertile ground for spiritual growth.

On the occasion of the International Day of the Family on May 15, the reporter learned from an interview that the pursuit of health has increasingly become a family tradition in the new era.

  The "Healthy China Action (2019-2030)" proposes to advocate the idea that everyone is the first person responsible for their own health, stimulate residents' passion for health and the pursuit of health, and develop a healthy lifestyle that suits their own and family characteristics.

  Small family health is related to national well-being.

In order to allow families to eat healthy, the China Family Planning Association and relevant departments launched a campaign to collect outstanding cases of "Bird Meal for Pregnant Mothers and Baby Birds", advocated "bird meal" for maternal and child nutrition, and mobilized the majority of pregnant women and infant families to take action and practice Carry out the scientific concept of prenatal and postnatal care, pay attention to food safety and reasonable diet, strictly save and oppose waste.

  Milk-flavored pumpkin strips, chicken and vegetable omelettes, colorful millet porridge... The creative "bird meal" with balanced nutrition and exquisite economy is sought after by netizens.

In 2021, the two episodes of the "Niao Bird Meal for All" themed live broadcasts attracted more than 1.2 million people to watch online. The topic of "Little Bird Meal" on Weibo became a hot search, with nearly 60 million interactive readings.

  Like the "Little Bird Meal", many new healthy eating habits are quietly popular among Chinese families - some families match the nutrition of three meals with the "Balanced Meal Pagoda of Chinese Residents"; "Limited salt spoons, limited oil pots and healthy waist measures have become the "standards" for some families.

  The per capita daily salt intake should not be higher than 5 grams, and the adult per capita daily edible oil intake should not be higher than 25 to 30 grams... Tian Linlin, an employee of the Animal Husbandry Development Service Center in Pingyin County, Shandong Province, is familiar with these health knowledge. Heart.

She taught herself a health manager course, not only to pass on the concept of health to her family, but also to use what she has learned to cook to improve the nutritional status of her family.

  "Tongue health" is only one part of family health.

Use wearable devices to monitor health indicators such as heart rate, do "Liu Genghong" aerobics or do parent-child yoga, and create clean and tidy rooms and courtyards... Chinese families are pursuing health in an increasingly diverse and fashionable way.

  "The fat around the waist is smashed, I want the mermaid line and the vest line!" Accompanied by dynamic music and passionate commentary, the young people known as "Liu Genghong Girl" and "Liu Genghong Boy" dance at home. Fitness has become a daily compulsory course.

  Nowadays, the pursuit of health has become the consciousness of many families.

Mao Qun'an, director of the Department of Planning, Development and Informatization of the National Health Commission, recently introduced at a press conference of the National Health Commission that at present, the proportion of people who regularly participate in physical exercise in my country has reached 37.2%, and the health literacy level of residents has reached 23.15%.

  The change in family health is due to the promotion of a series of family health promotion measures.

  In 2019, the State Council issued a document to promote the implementation of the Healthy China Action nationwide, organize 15 special actions such as the popularization of health knowledge, reasonable diet, and national fitness, take effective intervention measures in all aspects, vigorously advocate a healthy and civilized lifestyle, and strive to improve the health of the whole people. Literacy.

  In recent years, the China Family Planning Association has cooperated with multiple departments to carry out family health promotion actions across the country, strengthening health guidance and services for children, adolescents, people of childbearing age, and middle-aged and elderly people. In terms of success, etc., various forms of family health-themed promotion activities are carried out across the country every year, and more than 80,000 activities in 2021 alone will attract more than 52 million people to participate.

  In the future, how to help more family members be the "first responsible person" for their own health?

In Hunan and other places, a new "occupation" is "on the line".

  "Family health instructors come home every Monday morning to help me measure blood sugar, blood pressure, and do back massages, which have helped me solve a lot of pain problems," said Zhang Yixin, 73, a 73-year-old from Jingyuan Community of Keda University, Sifangping Street, Kaifu District, Changsha City, Hunan Province.

  It is understood that since the China Family Planning Association's family health promotion pilot project was established in Hunan two years ago, the province has built more than 8,000 family health service places at county, township and village levels, and trained and developed more than 20,000 family health instructors.

  Each village (residential) trains at least one family health instructor, and each family trains a healthy "understander" to build a "bridge" for health knowledge to enter the family; in some places in Changsha, family health service centers, health huts, Family health service places such as health guidance stations are gradually building a "15-minute health service circle".

  "my country is a big country with a population of 1.4 billion and more than 490 million families. Families play an important role in the development of personal healthy behaviors and the inheritance of good culture." He Xiang, deputy secretary-general of the China Family Planning Association, said that the China Family Planning Association will continue to Explore the experience and practices of promoting family health, enrich the forms of family health theme promotion activities, improve family health awareness and health literacy, and strive to make greater contributions to the construction of a healthy China.