China to promote 'cocktail
weight loss therapy' in response to WHO plan
(Beijing Time) Saturday,
February 28, 2004
In order to respond to the
"Action Plan for the 21st Century World Health and Weight Loss Project"
initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in late January, China will
promote the "cocktail weight loss therapy", a brand-new overall solution
plan made on the basis of the research achievements relating to obesity.
A couple of academic organizations in the field of medicine and cosmetology,
as well as experts in weight loss of the National Health Project, held a
joint press conference on Feb. 24 to release the above information.
According to experts, the "cocktail weight loss therapy" is not a product
concept, but a scientific, healthy and safe weigh loss plan that combines
traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. It consists of four
techniques and two guarantees. Four techniques refer to effective sugar and
fat prevention technique, safe fat-burning technique, healthy appetite
control technique and traditional channel activation technique.
The two guarantees are: exercise, i.e. to walk 10, 000 steps within half an
hour or jogging for five kilometers daily. Maintaining a balanced meal
structure. Try to implement three " one-third", i.e. one meal is made up of
one-third fruit, one-third vegetable and one-third protein. Meanwhile, one
should make sure to drink more than 1, 500 milliliter water daily. One ought
to form a habit of having multiple meals with less food eaten at each meal;
eat less staple food; not to take food at night.
Experts claimed, "No single product can really solve the obesity and rebound
problem". At the current technical level, the "cocktail weight loss therapy"
is the only method that satisfies "obvious, long-lasting, healthy and
pleasant" weight-losing demand. Practice proves that it is superior to any
other single method and can be widely applied among people suffering from
obesity.
There are more than 1.3 billion obese people around the world. Hundreds of
billions US dollars is spent on treatment of obesity. There are 200 to 300
million of overweight people in China and about 40 million obese persons.
The WHO warns in its "Action Plan for the 21st Century World Health and
Weight Loss Project" that the people who die of obesity have already
outnumbered those starved to death. Obesity will become a major health
problem in the future. Obesity, along with AIDS, drug and alcoholism are
four big social medical problems.