In recent years, the international medical community has put forward a new concept of “sub-health” state. “Sub-health” refers to a physiological state in which the vitality of the body is reduced and the adaptation is reduced in varying degrees, although there is no specific disease. “Sub-health” is a state of low physiological function between health and disease, which is caused by the low physiological function and metabolic process function of various systems of the body, It is also called “the third state” or “grey state” in foreign countries.
A study shows that about 75% of middle-aged intellectuals with senior professional titles in Shanghai belong to the sub-health group. Relevant experts warned that people should pay enough attention to the sub-health in daily life. Sub-health refers to people who have not yet fallen ill, but have various risk factors with different degrees of illness, and have a high-risk tendency to develop a certain disease. Most of the high-risk factors of sub-health people are related to modern bad lifestyle and behavior habits. Unhealthy life = sub-health.
At the 64th National Diabetes annual conference just concluded, Dr Professor Eugene Barrett suggested that in addition to solving the worldwide problem of obesity and diabetes through applied scientific research, more attention should be paid to social and environmental factors. Call on communities, governments and companies to have the obligation to intervene in the unhealthy lifestyle and eating habits of their employees and citizens, so as to change their lives.
Dr. Barrett believes that the solution to obesity and diabetes lies in incorporating an incentive mechanism into social institutions to change unhealthy behaviors. Every company should provide employees with holidays to do things beneficial to their health, such as losing weight. We must use holidays to guide a healthy lifestyle.
China is a developing country with a large population. In the past two decades, due to economic development, people’s living environment has changed. China’s dietary culture has changed the dietary structure from a staple food of carbohydrates to a high protein and high-fat diet. The dining place has moved from families, canteens to hotels.
The dining time is very irregular from three meals a day to many meals a day. The development of automobile industry in China is the increase of obesity incidence rate with the increase of automobile sales. The improvement of living conditions has caused people to move from apartments to high-rise buildings. White collar workers in high-rise buildings and deep hospitals rarely see sunshine.
With the development of network information technology, people can enjoy online shopping without leaving home. Such a modern environment, coupled with the increasingly nervous mental pressure, forces white-collar workers to give priority to enjoying modern life while also enjoying its by-product sub-health.
In recent years, the sub-health problems of white-collar workers in China have become increasingly serious, such as obesity, impaired glucose tolerance, fatty liver, increased incidence rate of type 2 diabetes, and younger age of onset. Coronary heart disease, hypertension, even fatal cardiovascular events and other diseases of the elderly appear prematurely in young and middle-aged white-collar workers.
Gout, fatigue syndrome and mental weakness are also common diseases of white-collar workers. These problems are all transformed from sub-health, and the biggest problem at present is that the middle-aged and young white-collar people in China have a serious lack of awareness of health. He or she is still happily enjoying the payment products of modern development and overdrawing their health.
As Dr Professor Eugene Barrett said: “in the 21st century, we are embarking on a road of no return that endangers our health. We should consciously increase our knowledge and translate it into our action plan to solve the seemingly unsolvable problem: obesity and diabetes.”
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