The country is calling on you to lose weight! Post-00s already have abdominal muscles, are you still waiting for the ninth cup of milk tea?

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When there is a milk tea shop every 200 meters in the CBD and the appointments for private lessons at the gym are scheduled two weeks in advance, two parallel worlds are forming: on one side, the post-00s are posting photos of their abdominal muscles with a body fat percentage of 18% all over social platforms, and on the other side, there are piles of empty milk tea cups in office buildings. The National Health Commission's "Report on the Nutrition and Chronic Disease Status of Chinese Residents" sounded the alarm: the overweight and obesity rate of adult residents has reached 50.7%, an increase of 74% from ten years ago. This silently spreading metabolic crisis is reshaping the coordinate system of the quality of life of contemporary people.

1. Metabolic crisis wrapped in sugar

A 2020 Lancet study showed that 46,600 Chinese people die from sugary drinks each year. Behind the explosive growth of the milk tea industry are cruel statistics: a single cup of full-sugar milk tea contains up to 60g of sugar (the World Health Organization recommends daily intake of ≤25g), and the trans fatty acids brought by non-dairy creamer exceed the standard by 400%. When the body becomes the ultimate host of capital carnival, the trend of younger diabetes is inevitable - the diagnosis rate for those under 35 has increased by 217% in five years.

2. Deconstructing the consumer trap of the food industry

"Second cup half price" is not only a promotional strategy, but also a perfect application of neuroeconomics: dopamine reward mechanism hunger marketing makes consumers lose rational judgment in the sugar bombardment. Meituan data shows that 82% of afternoon tea orders are unplanned consumption, and 67% occur during peak work pressure periods. The business model of capital using sweet anxiety to exchange healthy chips is creating a collective unconscious nutritional debt.

3. Three-dimensional reconstruction of scientific weight loss

1. Metabolic Reboot: Use the 211 diet (2 fistfuls of vegetables, 1 fistful of protein, 1 fistful of staple food) to keep the GI value below 55

2. Exercise prescription: HIIT (high-intensity interval training) 3 times a week, 20 minutes each time, fat burning efficiency is higher than jogging for 1 hour

3. Biological clock calibration: ensure deep sleep from 22:00 to 02:00, increase growth hormone secretion by 300%

Experiments conducted by the Chinese Nutrition Society showed that following this plan for 12 weeks resulted in an average weight loss of 7.3kg and a decrease in visceral fat by 2 levels.

Conclusion: When the Outline of the "Healthy China 2030" Plan includes obesity prevention and control in the national strategy, every breath of an individual becomes a footnote of the times. Choosing to put down the ninth cup of milk tea is not a castration of happiness, but an awakening to regain the sovereignty of the body. Those post-00s who are sculpting muscles in the gym are reconstructing the aesthetic narrative of the new era with self-discipline - after all, only those who can manage their own bodies are qualified to talk to the future.

Data source:

1. National Health Commission, "Report on the Nutrition and Chronic Disease Status of Chinese Residents (2020)"

2. Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD 2020)

3. Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

4. "Scientific Research Report on Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2021)"