Sunday, September 24, 2006
Quality of HK citizens
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
