Anti-sugar and anti-lying Nanjing Gaochun cooking class students fancy science popularization diabetes knowledge

United Nations Diabetes Day
is celebrated on 14 November every year.
According to a recent survey, there were 537 million adults with diabetes worldwide last year, of which about 1 in 10 adults were exposed to health hazards
.
With the acceleration of urbanization, people's lifestyle has changed dramatically, physical activity has also decreased, but food intake has increased, coupled with irregular eating and staying up late, the incidence of type 2 diabetes in young people is also increasing
.
As the country with the largest number of diabetic patients in the world, the number of diabetic patients in China is about 150 million, and at the same time, nearly 840,000
people die every year due to various complications caused by diabetes.

Known as the "sweet killer" diabetes, the current cause is not clear, 95% of China's diabetic patients are type 2 diabetes, and the main cause of type 2 diabetes is poor lifestyle such as overeating, physical inactivity, etc
.
According to a school survey, the awareness rate of school students about the causes and prevention of diabetes is less than
10%.
In order to let more young people understand the harm of diabetes and improve bad behaviors in life, recently, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, located in Gaochun, Jiangsu Province Gaochun Secondary Professional School, 22 cooking class students joint school student office, combined with their own professional advantages, carried out a variety of theme activities, calling on teachers and students to pay attention to diabetes
.

Conduct themed class meetings

Many students said that they only knew that diabetes was terrible, but through today's professional study, they also understood that genetic factors and environmental factors jointly lead to the occurrence
of diabetes.
Diabetes is divided into four types: type 1, type 2, special type and gestational diabetes, and the diagnosis rate of diabetic patients in China is only about 30%, which shows that the road to popularization of diabetes knowledge is still a long
way.
The head teacher said: "Before the United Nations Diabetes Day, we combined our professional knowledge to carry out such a theme class meeting, in order to attract everyone's attention, poor eating habits will lead to the probability
of diabetes.
Through the theme class meeting, the students also realized how to prevent diabetes, and they can also convey it to their parents after going back, thus achieving the purpose of knowledge popularization and science promotion.
"

Produce themed hand-copied newspapers

Students in the cooking class use what they have learned about diabetes to design
posters with pens as a medium.
They created the prevention of diabetes and dietary restrictions through hand-copied newspapers in the form of pictures and
texts.
A total of more than 20 themed posters were designed in one day, and then the posters were posted at the entrance of the school cafeteria to promote the healthy lifestyle and prevention knowledge of diabetes to the teachers and students of the school, advocate positive and healthy eating habits, advocate reasonable diet, and exercise regularly to prevent obesity
.
The theme poster was well received by many teachers and students, and Director Xie of the Student Office of the school said that the cooking class students used the professional knowledge they learned to popularize dietary knowledge, such as diabetic patients should eat more than 500 grams of vegetables a day, dark vegetables should account for half, eat vegetables first and then eat staple food
.
Introduce the causes, harms and prevention of type 2 diabetes to teachers and students, and praise
the careful design of this group of students.

Looking for "sugar" in snack drinks

Sugar is an essential nutrient for the human body, and about 80% of the daily energy supply comes from sugar
.
In life, sugar comes from a wide range of sources, such as simple sugars in fruits, disaccharides in plants, and polysaccharides
in vegetables.
These sugars can be seen, so the intake can also be controlled, but in people's lives some sugar is invisible and intangible, it is easy to over-intake cause obesity, and eventually aggravate the risk of
diabetes.
To this end, cooking class students come to the small supermarket, observe the snacks and drinks on the shelves, and look for "sugar"
against the nutrition facts table.
Who would have thought: potato chips contain 57% sugar, chocolate 69%, dried fruit compote 71%, and biscuits as high as 73%, school students especially love snacks, like to drink drinks, but these constitute the main cause of
obesity.
Su Yang, a participating student, said: "Usually not eating snacks not only can not lose weight, but more obese, through today's activity, he understands that there is also excessive use of sugar in snacks, and must develop the habit of eating less and not snacking in the future"
.

Move together and refuse to lie flat

On a sunny autumn afternoon, on a green playground, a group of students playing games attracted the participation
of many students.
Xu Yijun, the initiator of the game, said: "The best way to prevent diabetes is to control your mouth and open your legs, exercise more than 150 minutes a week, as students in the new era, we must exercise our bodies and refuse to lie flat, and call on more people to participate, so that they have a new understanding
of diabetes.
" Wang, who just joined the game, said very happily: "Although we don't know the causes of diabetes, we need to know more about the dangers and prevention of diabetes, exercise more together to prevent obesity, and develop good habits for a lifetime"
.

It is reported that the theme activity of the United Nations Diabetes Day has aroused good repercussions in the school, and many teachers and students have also participated in it, which has played a great role
in promoting the popularization of diabetes science.
"Just as this year's Diabetes Day theme education protects tomorrow, regular popular science knowledge on campus is of great significance for popularizing the prevention and treatment of diabetes, and we also hope to remind students to pay more attention to their own health and parents' health by holding such activities, and really hope to play a role in protecting the bottom through education," said event planner Teacher Zhang
.

(Jiangsu Gaochun Secondary Professional School, Xie Feiya, Zhang Shishun)

Responsible editor: Zhao Yu Review: Wang Jinchen