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Fat Camp; Boot Camp in China
More and more young Chinese are showing tendencies toward obesity. For those parents who have the necessary small change, they can send their kids to the “lose it” boot camp aka children’s weight loss clinic. A broad spectrum of conventional exercises to the odd, innovative and unusual - it’s all on the menu.
More and more young Chinese are showing tendencies toward obesity. For those parents who have the necessary small change, they can send their kids to the “lose it” boot camp aka children’s weight loss clinic. A broad spectrum of conventional exercises to the odd, innovative and unusual - it’s all on the menu.
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00:0720 year old Jung Yan is overweight too overweight and she's not the only one she's one of 30
00:14participants in a weight loss boot camp in China boot camp helped him 16 year old Shao
00:21Kang has dropped 40 kilos since beginning the 11 year old Chao Chun has also lost a
00:27considerable amount of weight but not through sport but with very different methods
00:37obesity and China how did these two come to be the booming country is switching from rice with
00:43vegetables to Western fast food the consequence almost a third of China is overweight especially
00:50children and teenagers are more and more obese that is precisely why there are more weight
00:58loss boot camps sprouting like mushrooms from the ground every day one of the most renowned slim
01:04JF camp is in Beijing Jun Yan is 20 years old 1 meter 63 and 105 kilos simply too much
01:13she plans
01:14on losing up to 40 kilos here I began feeling ashamed and stopped going out it suddenly hit me
01:22and I realized this cannot go on you have to drop weight therefore I'm here Jun Yan has been part
01:32of the camp for 12 days in total she plans on staying for 10 weeks the cost however is steep
01:38around 2,400 euros camp days have a clear structure there's breakfast at 7 a.m. always on the watch
01:46the
01:47trainer they oversee and look after the teenagers around the clock trainers control what and especially
01:54how much the kids eat the menu is low in fat and salt plenty of vegetables at the expense of
02:02meat for the
02:03head chef Gia sweets are the nemesis here and their parents send their kids snacks and sweets or they
02:11leave them when they visit we organize small raids constantly and if we find anything outside the food
02:16plan it's confiscated we're relentless at home the teenagers often indulge themselves indiscriminately at the
02:25bootcamp there are clear rules but I appreciate having somebody that controls me a bit otherwise I
02:36wouldn't be able to Jun Yan tried several times to drop weight but almost always she'd gain back what
02:45she'd lost a few days afterwards just like most kids in the bootcamp now they have six hours of
02:52exercise and sports six days a week today's first training session fitness exercises no dumbbells
02:59they're replaced with their own body weight that alone is enough of a challenge 20 year old Jun Yan is
03:05clearly having a hard time I've tried time and time again to lose weight but I've never managed to do
03:12so this is the first time that I try working out it's terribly demanding but it feels good somehow as
03:20as the bootcamp keeps training and sweating away we visit Liu Jiayao clinic across the town a weight loss
03:31clinic that tries to help him Chowchun 11 years old 76 kilos in weight Chowchun has been undergoing
03:39hospital treatment for a year he weighed 135 kilos when he was committed into the clinic his excessive weight
03:46has deformed his legs when I was that fat grown-ups would tell me I would have diabetes someday if
03:53I
03:54didn't lose weight and that they would cut off my arms and legs that terrified me but there's something
04:02even worse the 11 year old is dealing with I don't have any friends the kids in my class didn't
04:11ever want
04:12to play with me because as they say I'm too fat his parents weren't able to cope with the situation
04:19anymore as soon as the clinic heard about this case they offered to treat him at no cost otherwise the
04:25treatment would have risen to the 30,000 euro mark highly obese people need medical assistance working
04:31out would be counterproductive in my opinion since it would have a negative impact on the extremities that's
04:37why I believe in our therapy methods based on Chinese medicine an interesting difference in
04:44contrast to the weight loss boot camp the clinic does not focus on sports and exercise but on
04:49traditional Chinese medicine one of the many treatments cupping according to the Chinese
04:54doctor it stimulates digestion and fat burning I prefer this much more to walking on the treadmill
05:02afterwards I'm always really tired but this is much nicer from one treatment to the next again
05:11we're not surprised I sleep a little while she does this it's always so nice what follows shouldn't be
05:22tried at home because it requires medical assistance a towel a mixture of alcohol and herbs and
05:36a burning child the 11 year old chow chun seems to enjoy it with fire the skin on the belly
05:43can absorb
05:44the mix of Chinese medicines and alcohol and the heat stimulates the burning of fat cells the Chinese
05:54doctor swears by this method every year the clinic treats dozens of people with weight problems with
06:00success being overweight is not a problem specific to China the whole world is getting fatter nearly one
06:10in three is overweight that is more than two billion people in the world which is as much as the
06:16entire
06:16population of China India and Germany combined in addition more and more people worldwide are obese the country
06:23leading with thirty six point five percent the USA in Germany it's significantly less than the US but
06:29is already fourteen point seven percent with an increasing tendency meanwhile the sweating continues at the
06:36boot camp three months of the camp cost around two thousand eight hundred euros a lot of money but more
06:42and
06:43more Chinese parents from the middle and upper classes are willing to pay for it on average eight hundred children
06:49and
06:49teenagers visit the camp each year many of them are critical cases but nobody gives up here the coaches
06:56support them wherever possible the important thing is that the students learn to believe in themselves when
07:03they start here they're often frustrated but they see in other students that it's worth it and that they
07:08can also do it while twenty-year-old Jun Yan is at the beginning still has ten weeks boot camp
07:16to go we meet with
07:19someone who is already much closer to his goal Shao Kang has been in the camp for the past twelve
07:24weeks he
07:26shows us what he looked like when he came here at that time he weighed 135 kilos since having started
07:33he's
07:33dropped 40 kilograms almost a third of his original weight for him surely a huge success I don't like
07:42my old self at all of course I'm afraid that I'll regain the weight when I'm out of here but
07:48if I continue
07:49like this and everything will be fine my belly was so big now it's a lot more flat which makes
07:57me proud
08:02still it takes Shao Kang a lot of courage to show his body I hate the hanging skin I'd like
08:13to get rid
08:13of it with an operation but my mother says I should continue to try with exercise Shao Kang will stay
08:20in
08:20the boot camp for another three months he hopes to lose another 20 kilograms and build some muscle mass
08:27the objective in the boot camp is to consume between 3,000 and 4,000 calories every day in
08:33comparison an average man with a height of 1 meter 80 consumes about 1,900 calories per day without much
08:40activity here we go everybody five push-ups the relationship between coaches and kids in the
08:49camp is cooperative even a little extra workout routine isn't that bad every now and then the push-ups are
08:55actually for the losing teams every now and then there's something for everyone unfortunately he's
09:02right lunchtime and again light food during the day the kids are allowed to eat 2,000 kilocalories it
09:11might sound like a lot but with six hours of physical activity per day it's just enough to feel full
09:17but
09:17not enough to tip over while the boot camp may help drop up to 40 kilograms in just three months
09:27it takes
09:28a year for the same results in a weight loss clinic the most important dieting component here is Chinese
09:35medicine the special ingredients in this drink curb the appetite and control hunger for the Chinese
09:43doctor the non plus ultra a recipes with ginger and ginseng they help stimulate the metabolism and burn the fat
09:55in contrast to the boot camp
09:57hunger is present in the clinic 11 year old xiao chun is only allowed to eat 1200 calories a day
10:03the herbal drink won't help
10:05him feel full either i do not really like that it tastes better but i have to drink it
10:11chow chun is currently the only child in the weight loss clinic that can make things hard for him he's
10:17not allowed to leave the clinic and he sees his parents only once a month
10:28once i've lost more weight and can go home i want to make friends
10:35and i want to go back to school and study
10:41only 10 to 15 percent of heavily obese children manage not to gain back the weight lost the patients
10:48aren't trained on how to deal with the dreaded yo-yo effect on your marks go back in the boot
10:56camp
10:56last training session of the day a four kilometer run through the forest for the teenagers in the
11:01camp the physical strain is extremely high up to six hours of exercise per day
11:09newcomer junyan is also struggling she's only been in the camp for 12 days for her this is the first
11:16time in her life that she pushes her body to its limits recently i couldn't even go up a small
11:22hill
11:22and now i'm already running for small stretches when going out with my family to the countryside i
11:28always took the car i feel so much better now
11:33at the end of the day however all teenagers are relieved to finally be able to rest only one thing
11:44remains
11:45the weighing every two days the trainers measure and weigh the participants this is how they document
11:52their progress and motivate them to continue
11:57shunyuan has already lost six kilos in her 12 days at the camp is she satisfied with the latest result
12:06at least 1.5 kilos 1.5 kilos that's good
12:158 pm the day is over at the boot camp for many the energy to share and watch tv isn't
12:21there anymore
12:22nevertheless junyan is glad to be here i noticed after such a short time here that my face and my
12:29belly
12:30have become a bit slimmer the boot camp is good for me it brings order to my life i hope
12:35that i will
12:36maintain this rhythm even after i leave the camp and achieve my goals i want to lose 40 kilos
12:44once my mother picks me up i hope she's really surprised and doesn't recognize me
12:51until then he will continue to train at the weight loss boot camp in china
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