According to People's Daily Online and other media reports, a research report published on 20 10 said that the number of obese people in China has reached 325 million, which is higher than that in the United States, Britain and Australia. This number may double in the next 20 years.
Professor Wu Yangfeng of China Academy of Medical Sciences once lamented: "China used to be one of the countries with the largest number of thin people, but now it has quickly caught up with western countries. What is disturbing is that all this happened in a very short time. "
More notably, according to People's Daily Online 20 10, the number of obese children in China increased by 28 times in 15. Nearly one-fifth of children under 7 years old are overweight and 7% are obese, far exceeding the proportion in European countries.
The substantial increase in the number of obese people has brought great impetus to the development of China's weight loss market. As early as 2006, Sheng Jie, Secretary-General of China International Weight-loss and Bodybuilding Association, said that the weight-loss market in China reached 1 654,380 billion yuan, with an amazing growth rate. Bian Chenguang, a researcher in the pharmaceutical industry of Anbang Consulting, estimated that the current market size of weight-loss products in China is about 70 billion yuan.
Unfortunately, the huge scale and rapid growth have not brought a healthy development environment for the weight loss market in China. Problems such as illegal addition, the proliferation of "three noes" products, and false propaganda are frequently exposed, constantly challenging consumers' bottom line.
In September last year, the Inspection Bureau of the State Food and Drug Administration of the United States issued the Notice on the illegal addition of sibutramine and phenolphthalein to 1 1 kinds of slimming products such as "E Fruit Qiao Mei Brand Slimming Capsule", demanding that the whereabouts of related products be strictly investigated. Among them, phenolphthalein is an irritating laxative. Excessive use or long-term abuse will cause electrolyte disorder, induce arrhythmia, unconsciousness, muscle spasm, fatigue and weakness, and also lead to female infertility.
According to a survey conducted by the reporter of Jinghua Times, there are only four kinds of weight-loss drug L-carnitine approved by the State Administration of Pharmaceutical Products, and there are dozens of L-carnitine sold online.
The problems of false propaganda and exaggerated effect in the weight loss market have existed for a long time and have not been effectively managed so far.
According to the Interim Provisions on the Examination of Health Food Advertisements issued by the US Food and Drug Administration, as a health product, its advertisements shall not contain assertions or guarantees indicating the efficacy of the product, nor shall they contain promises such as "safety", "no toxic side effects" and "no dependence". However, in reality, slogans such as "immediate effect", "how many pounds are lost in a month" and "no side effects" are still eye-catching in advertisements of many weight-loss products.
The reason why the market of slimming products is chaotic is not only the lack of corporate social responsibility and poor supervision, but also closely related to the irrational consumption of some consumers.
Nowadays, a new group has emerged in society-"thin people". They enjoy losing weight and like to search for ways to lose weight and exchange experiences through various channels. Although some people are not obese, they pursue the so-called "thinness" endlessly, at the expense of health.
According to a survey conducted by the Social Investigation Center of China Youth Daily on 20 1 1, 73.5% of the respondents confirmed that there were "skinny people" around them, and 34.9% of the female respondents said that they had tried some extreme methods to lose weight, such as dieting, "vomiting" and taking a lot of diet pills.
The survey conducted by the China Obesity Working Group of the International Society of Life Sciences in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou shows that there are five major misunderstandings in the current weight loss population in China, such as incorrect weight loss purpose, blind pursuit of weight loss effect, and failure to listen to doctors and coaches.
According to Guangzhou Daily and other media reports in March last year, a survey conducted by Yang Jiong, director of Guangzhou Lingnan Medical Research Center, found that about 40% of people who are losing weight are normal or thin.
Professor He Lun, director of the Department of Medical Humanities at Southeast University, once pointed out that excessive weight loss and blind belief that thinner is more beautiful is an aesthetic and cultural disease. In the current popular culture, the standard of being thin is excessively strengthened, and many people, especially some young people, blindly follow the trend to lose weight and internalize it into their firm belief.
An online survey conducted by the Social Investigation Center of China Youth Daily shows that 65.0% of the respondents are worried that abnormal aesthetics will induce young people to lose too much weight, and 86.4% of the respondents think it is necessary to strengthen aesthetic education and cultivate people's healthy aesthetics.
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