The Health Promotion Administration (HPA) of Ministry of Health and Welfare introduced the project of “Losing Weight Healthily & Obesity Prevention,” and the weight loss objective Hsinchu County government sets is to urge all County’s participants to lose a total of 14.6 tonnes. The County’s Public Health Bureau decided to invite 14,600 citizens to join the elimination of fat, and participants who successfully lose 1 kilogram or more will have a chance to obtain exquisite raffle prizes such as digital camera worth over NT$ 10,000, tablet, MP4 personal stereo, and digital scales, etc. Anyone who wishes to get rid of fat, fight obesity and get healthy must immediately submit your registration to the public health centers in the County’s townships and city.
Losing Weight Healthily & Obesity Prevention Project
─Period: Today ~ July 31, 2014
─Participant: All citizens of Hsinchu County or citizens working, studying or visiting in Hsinchu County
─Qualification for Participation:
(1) Adults aged 18-64 with BMI (Body Mass Index, body mass divided by the square of their height) exceeding 20 ㎏/㎡
(2) Children and adolescents aged 6-17 and categorized as “overweight” or “obese” based on the “Standard for Anthropometrical Measurements of Children and Adolescents” by Ministry of Health and Welfare
─Constraints on participation: (i) Pregnant women, (ii) anyone who is diagnosed as unfit to participate in the weight management by doctors
─Qualification for raffle: Participants who lose 1 kilogram or more and successfully upload the weight-related information onto the HPA’s database
─Registration office: All Public Health Centers in Hsinchu County’s administrative areas (townships and city)
Source: Health Promotion Section of Public Health Bureau, Hsinchu County Government
Writer: Fan Rui-Yun, Press Section (Tel:5518101, ext.3912)