Sunday, September 24, 2006

Quality of HK citizens

There is a news today abt the health level of HK ppl is rather "alarming", and this sounds rather astonishing to me too:

男人三十 逾半超重 四分一肥胖 體能走下坡 (明報) 09月 24日 星期日
【明報專訊】男士身材「走樣」比女士快﹖本港首個全民體適能測試結果昨天公布,數據顯示市民體質,包括體重、肌肉關節柔軟度、肌肉力量與耐力等,發現男人自30歲開始便走下坡,比女性「衰退」得更明顯,逾一半30歲以上男士超重,每4人便有1個屬肥胖,原來「人到中年」比一般人想像來得更早,主要原因是——懶。
康樂及文化事務署與體育委員會屬下的社區體育事務委員會,較早前合辦「社區體質測試計劃」,透過研究了解本港市民體質與運動模式的關係,從而建立體質數據庫,有助日後制訂市民健康政策。計劃在去年11月至今年3月進行,逾8000名3至69歲市民參與,參加者須分別完成體質測試及問卷調查兩部分。
結果顯示,30歲以上的受訪者隨着年齡增加,血壓、關節柔軟度及肌肉力量都變差,肥胖程度亦明顯上升。這個趨勢,男性比女性更明顯。30歲以上男性中,51%屬超重(體重指標BMI高過23),四分一被界定為肥胖(BMI高過25),40歲以上的受訪男性,肥胖人數更增加至三成半。
小童長看電視玩電腦易肥胖
至於小朋友長時間看電視或玩電腦,亦容易造成肥胖。調查發現,每天花少於1小時看電視或使用電腦的兒童中,超重者只有8%,但每天花3小時,超重者則佔15.7%,數據亦顯示,每天花愈多時間看電視或玩電腦,體重指標BMI愈高。此外,吸煙對人體健康亦有一定影響,調查顯示,非吸煙男士的體質測試結果較吸煙者為佳,包括腰圍、靜態心律和反應時間等,而吸煙女性的腰圍平均比非吸煙女性粗1吋。
倡成人每天運動30分鐘
是項計劃的諮詢委員會召集人勞永樂醫生指出,成年人每天運動量應累積30分鐘﹔至於學童應每周做3次中度至強度運動,每次不少於20分鐘。然而,調查發現,66%學童(7至19歲)及74%成年人(20至69歲)均沒有達標,當中更有13.5%學童及21%成年人表示沒有運動。而學童不積極參與運動的原因是「怕疲累」(28.1%),成年人則承認是「懶惰」(32.2%)及「缺乏時間」(21.1%)。勞永樂表示,通常人到中年(40歲後)才會身體機能退步,但調查發現市民在30歲便體能下降,情况令人震驚。他指出,肥胖會增加患心血管疾病、中風及糖尿病風險,建議市民每星期做3次或以上令人流汗的中度至強度運動,每次不少於半小時,以保持身體健康。



I forgot from where i've read or heard abt... but obesity is a sign of "uncivilsed" in a developed / rich city. This is because after a family gets richer, they just afraid themselves or their child cannot hv enuff to eat, and so they keep on eating / feeding their children without knowing they r obese. In those families, many parents also got the misunderstanding that children being "white n fat" is a sign of health-iness, which sadly, is just the opposite.


Another thing that prompted me to write on this topic is sth i experienced on the bus today (which i listened to many many times indeed). An apparently rich family is chatting on the bus (there r also a young child there)... this whole family is chatting in "half cantonese, half english" (this is VERY common thing in HK), however, there r always this irritation to me that though their english sounds nice, i tot they just used OBSESSIVE english words, r they just to showcase to other ppl on the bus? .... Obviously teaching their child to speak in english since young is a good thing, but honestly if u wanna teach them real good, they shd speak in English for the "whole sentence" or otherwise, dun say it at all w mixture of cantonese...

well, enuff blah blah blah for myself... but all these "small things" can show the quality of HK citizens... though they r rich, however most ppl's mind or soul (wa! so serious) is rather "unhealthy"... and just in case parents wanna teach their next generation to be a healthier ppl, they shd also mind these things too =p

P.S. Hope i m not fat or speaking half canto & eng... tell me if u realised tat hahaha

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Kobe 81

What are u doing on 22 Jan 2006? Kobe Bryant shot 81 points in a single game on that day! Recently i saw this ad during commerical break and i just think it's SOOO KEWWLLLL!!!!
It 'burns' w the exciting sense and makes me feel interested to search for this clip on web again!
so here is it... but too bad w the chinese subtitles... otherwise it will be perfect

btw, kobe is still da man!!! he is realli the coolest guy after Michael Jordan in NBA history (to me) ... and anyone remembers an ad by MJ which looks similar to this?







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