2024-04-10 09:55:37
One in eight people worldwide suffers fromobesity. According to the 2020-22 Population Health Survey Report of the Department of Health, 32.6% of people aged 15 to 84 in Hong Kong are obese. In addition to putting people at a higher risk of developing diabetes and heart disease, obesity also increases the risk of arthritis, pancreatic gallstones, depression and cancer. Therefore, weight loss has always been a health issue that has attracted much attention, and advertisements for weight loss injections have also been launched and have been widely discussed in the medical community.
I lost 16kg after taking the slimming injection and regained my weight after stopping the injection.
Slimming injections are very popular in the United States. Oprah Winfrey, a famous celebrity, openly admits to using them, showing off her slender figure from time to time. Although weight-loss injections appear to be very successful in the United States, whether they can be applied in Hong Kong remains to be studied. The following is an example from one of the users to give readers a preliminary understanding of weight loss injections.
Mr. Huang, 40, works as a tour bus driver between China and Hong Kong. He is a smoker. During a physical examination two years ago, he was found to have three high blood sugars (hyperglycemia, hypertension and hyperlipidemia) and was diagnosed with diabetes. He weighed 90 kilograms (nearly 200 pounds) at the time and had a BMI of 33, which classified him as obese. He began to worry about his health, so he tried to lose weight and go on a diet. Unfortunately, he could only maintain it for more than a week before he found it difficult to implement and very irritable, so the plan failed. Instead, he followed the doctor’s advice and injected “liraglutide” weight loss injections every day.
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After taking the medicine, Mr. Huang often felt full and stagnant. During normal meals, he barely ate one-third of his food, and he lost 2 kilograms in less than a week. Due to his lack of appetite, he reduced many gatherings with relatives and friends, but did not do any exercise. Although Mr. Huang lost 16 kilograms after taking the medicine for half a year and his three high indexes improved, he stopped using the “liraglutide” weight-loss injection after considering the cost and quality of life of long-term use of the medicine; less than half a year later , weight and three high indexes also rebounded.
I must remind readers that the “liraglutide” weight loss injection is a doctor’s prescription drug and is suitable for obese people with a BMI of 30 or above. In 2023, the European Medicines Agency received more than 150 submissions from a medical organization for weight loss injections. Reports of self-harm and suicide are ongoing.
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3 Tips for Healthy Weight Loss: Take a walk after a meal to avoid fat formation
Although many people lose weight for the sake of beauty, there are also some people who work hard for good health, but their starting points are different. Healthy weight loss can maintain body functions and prevent disease. Therefore, the author draws from medical research and experience,
Readers share ways to maintain a healthy weight and lose weight from three levels.
1. Psychological: If people who lose weight do not set clear goals and make up their minds, they will often give up halfway.
When planning goals, also anticipate potential obstacles and solutions. For example, those who choose to fast and succeed must psychologically believe in this method and have the determination to eat less.
2. Cognition: Before we put food into our mouths, we can ask two questions: Why do we eat? Can this food serve this purpose?
In fact, the purpose of human eating is mainly to absorb nutrients and meet life needs. However, many people absorb unnecessary food for the sake of habit, taste or social activities, without paying much attention to the actual needs of the body. On the other hand, we need to understand the body’s energy reserves and obesity mechanism, and we will know that fat will not disappear due to a short-term diet, and fat reserves will be used last.
Basically, weight loss is an arithmetic program of addition and subtraction. Some people may ask: “Why can’t I lose weight even if I eat a lot less?” The main reason is metabolism (too little consumption) and the time is too short to produce negative energy effects. On the other hand, even if we accidentally eat too much, if it is not consumed in time, it will become a reserve and become a very stable fat.
3. Action: Master the appropriate methods to lose weight with twice the result with half the effort.
- Seventy percent fullness: The Chinese way of maintaining health is “seventy percent fullness”, which has many psychological and physiological benefits. In addition to losing weight, being 70% full also reduces the pressure on the heart from the stomach.
- Chew slowly: Like a slimming shot, it affects food intake with a sense of satiety. One bite of food, chewed 20 to 30 times, can strengthen your determination to lose weight and increase your sense of satiety in your mind.
- Stay away from temptation: avoid hoarding snacks at work or at home, and avoid frequenting food stores.
- Choose food: For the same ounce of starch and meat, starchy food is easier to absorb and convert into sugar; but meat takes time to grind and digest, and less sugar is converted, so eat meat and vegetables, etc. Rough food makes it easier to lose weight. Regular consumption of processed foods, even replacing normal natural foods, can easily accumulate fat and damage body functions.
- Walk for 30 minutes after a meal: Medical research shows that walking for 30 minutes after a meal will increase the metabolic effect. The “2-hour post-meal blood sugar level test” used to diagnose diabetes reflects that the body will send excess sugar into cells within 2 hours to maintain normal blood sugar levels. The excess blood sugar will become reserves, that is, fat.
- How to burn fat through exercise: All physical activities consume sugar, but to achieve the effect of fat burning, exercise must be sustained for a period of time. In the energy usage sequence of physical activities, the body will give priority to using sugar as energy. As time increases and sugar decreases, the body will convert fat to produce energy; the journey of eliminating fat begins.
- Adequate sleep: When humans are in deep sleep, fat utilization rate is higher. This is because during sleep, the body activates its repair mechanism, and the body uses fat to repair the body. If readers have fat pounds at home, they can measure and compare before going to bed and after waking up. If you calculate carefully, you will find that the body fat ratio will decrease after waking up.
Written by: Dr. Zhu Xianwen, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Metropolitan University of Hong Kong
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