Ma xiuzhen, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and vice chairman of the CPPCC Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Committee, brought a proposal related to obesity prevention and control to this year's two sessions.
Ma xiuzhen, a CPPCC National Committee member and vice chairman of the CPPCC Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Committee [Photo provided to seeningxia.com]
At present, about 40% of the world's adults are overweight or obese, and obesity has become a major public health problem in China in recent years. More than 50% of adults and 20% of school-age children in China are now overweight or obese. The number of obese children in China ranks first in the world and the number of obese adults ranks second, behind the United States.
Ma believes that obesity as an independent chronic disease and an important pathogenic factor of many other chronic diseases, raising its prevention and treatment to the level of national strategic concern is of great significance to the construction of a healthy China. Under this premise, Ma proposed to improve China's obesity management guidelines by group of population.
In the past 20 years, China has issued the Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Obesity in Chinese Adults and the Consensus of Experts on the Prevention and Control of Obesity in Chinese Adults, but has not yet paid attention to the issue of childhood obesity. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the obesity management and prevention guidelines for different groups of people in China.
A systematic lifestyle intervention program should be established. The government can take the lead in organizing relevant interdisciplinary experts to formulate China's medium and long-term obesity prevention and control plan, lifestyle intervention plan, clinical diagnosis and treatment and management guidelines or expert consensus.
Meanwhile, the practical mode of "clinical + scientific research" should be implemented. The government can establish a Chinese obesity management model based on clinical obesity-related chronic disease monitoring and community obesity consultation, in a bid to reserve and establish big data in the field, carry out clinical trials related to obesity and weight loss research, and explore a management model catered to overweight Chinese patients.