Perspective of Experts

      According to the survey, the proportion of people in sub-healthy status in China has risen to 75%. Moreover, sub-health is not just popular among urban people and brainworkers. It is expanding rapidly and constantly...

      Where does sub-health come from? What harm does it bring? There's a lot of debate about it.

      In recent years, the overall disease resistance of the population has been declining. Moreover, a variety of complex diseases are emerging. Some of the diseases originally belong to developed countries are becoming more popular in the country. The phenomenon of middle-aged and young people “dying at early ages” is becoming more and regular. Our analysis shows that, there is a complicated process for the human body to converse from health to pathologica. With stimulation of various factors, subtle organic changes will happen to tissues or organ, leading to disorder of body regulation functions. Essentially, the sub-health state is the result of human body tissue organ under long-term pressure and that the body generate signal of basic physiological function abnormality. The vast majority of malignant tumor, cardio-cerebrovascular disease and diabetes patients are from the sub-health population.

      Sub-health is a status between health and disease, and is the precursory state of most noninfectious chronic diseases. The cause of sub-health is the comprehensive result of interaction of many factors, and we can neither treat it in isolation or in neglects.

1. Mood and lifestyle

      Some attribute sub-health to work stress. This is obviously only partial. A phenomenon provides good enlightenment: The pines on the cliff can stand proudly against mistreat of wind, but the flowers and plants in the greenhouse wither easily.

      As the saying goes, smile and you will be younger. Keep worried and your hair will be gray. It is hereby recognized that human mind affects the physiological functions of the nerve, immune, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and endocrine systems. It is found that many young people have the problem of back pain, insomnia, dreaminess, forgetfulness, dizziness, tinnitus, alopecia and skin roughness, dryness, dullness, lack of luster, skin, wrinkles, pigmentation and other “pre-aging” phenomenon, it is psychological problems that produce physiological stress reaction. Physiological aging and sub-healthy state have the characteristics of low functions in physiological and metabolic processes. Thus there is a close relationship between them. If no sufficient attention and timely adjustment is paid to the status, The aging process will be accelerated, thus causing the disease to happen earlier.

      Lifestyles and misbehavor habits are catalysts for sub-health. Long-term lack of exercise or unreasonable exercise, as well as smoking, alcoholism, overeating and irregular life, will all reduce the body's resistance to disease, and induce a variety of diseases, especially cardio-cerebrovascular diseasees, digestive and nervous system diseases and cancer. Many people spend long time in high-rise buildings, with air conditions. Because of lower concentration of negative oxygen ions in the air, the concentration of oxygen in the blood of the human body is reduced. Furthermore, it affects the blood supply and oxygen supply of human tissue cells, and accelerates osteoporosis and muscular atrophy.

      The influence of clothing made of synthetic materials such as chemical fibers on the human body. Because chemical fiber fabric raw material is extracted from coal, oil, natural gas and other polymer compounds or nitrogen compounds, some of which are likely to become allergen. Once they enter the body, they would be likely easy to activate the pathological microbe system, causing allergic dermatitis, causing itching, pain, redness or blisters. In addition, the fabric has lower performance in breathability and hygroscopicity and thus affects sweat evaporation and skin respiration, destroy the mechanism of body temperature regulation, reduce the body's immune function. The fabrics have weak electricity that absorbs dust in the air, causing bronchial asthma. clothing friction with each other or skin friction in the production of static electricity, and it will raise blood pressure.

      Unscientific morning exercise. The air is not fresh before sunrise, plants are releaseing high levels of carbon dioxide. It is only after sunrise that the plant's photosynthesis begins and the air becomes fresh after oxygen is applied. In addition, foggy days are not suitable for morning exercises. Foggy days have lower air pressure and lower wind speed. The fogs have acid, alkali, benzene, amine, phenol and pathogenic microorganisms and other toxic and harmful substances that are not easy to dissipate. In morning exercises, the breathing increases quickly and it is easier to inhale waste gases. Exercising in foggy days will induce tracheitis, pharyngitis, conjunctivitis, rhinitis, rhinosinusitis and allergic diseases.

2. Atmospheric chemical pollution

      Air pollution including three categories: chemical, biological and radioactive. Chemical pollution is mainly caused by the fact that industrial combustion of sulfur-containing fuel and vehicle exhaust emissions exceeds self-purification capacity of nature, lacks positive control and effective treatment with many kinds of pollutants, great harm and wide coverage: Carbon dioxide aggravates greenhouse effect and causes climate anomalies. Sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides damage plant genetic tissues, resulting in crop loss and deterioration of product qualities. Acid rain causes pollution to river and lake water resources, ossification and disease of cultivated land, and so on. Atmospheric chemical pollutants may enter the human body through the respiratory tracts, or through digestive tract or skin, some through food or water indirectly into the human body, and damage to the human nervous system and visceral function. This is one of the main causes for increase of sub-health population  as well as the drive or direct cause for gastric cancer, chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, emphysema or lung.

      There is a definite understanding about the harmfulness of chemical pollution in the atmosphere. However, little is known about secondary pollution problems in  treatment (or improper measures) and the consequent impact on human beings. Taking the lime and limestone wet desulphurization process as an example, the desulphurization gypsum it has produced contains complicated contents of calcium oxide, calcium carbonate, magnesium sulfate, gypsum, semi-aqueous gypsum, calcium chloride, calcium fluosilicate, calcium fluoride, silicon dioxide, alumina and iron oxide and have very low values in reuse. Finally, the products have to occupy a large amount of land piled up to pollute the environment again, into a vicious circle of pollution control and pollution.

      These piles of desulphurized gypsum will last for a long time and emit toxic. The decomposed powder is brought into the air by the wind to form suspendiing particles, so that the long-term outdoor workers will suffer from skin inflammation and eye conjunctivitis, some have hair bifurcation, hard hair, hair rough without light, and reduce or fall off and other sub-health state, all related. The suspended particles in the air may be toxic and harmful substances or other pollutants carrier and reactive body. Particles with a diameter of 10 microns or less can be transported directly to and deposited in the lungs and absorbed by the alveolar capillaries, which are the main causes of chronic lung disease. 　

      “Fluoride” is a kind of toxicant protoplasm, which will destroy the cell wall and affect the activity of many enzymes in the body after entering the body. When fluorine enters the body, it will make calcium deposit in the blood vessels, cause vascular calcification, cause arteriosclerosis. If the body's fluorine content reaches 32-64 milligrams per kilogram, it will cause death.

      Silicosis is a lung disease caused by inhalation of dust containing silicon dioxide. The main damage of silicon dust on lung tissue damage is mainly the toxic effect of silicon dioxide, is macrophages that destroy the human, produces a series of complex pathological changes. The most common is the occurrence of shortness of breath, chest tightness, pharynx itching, cough and other sub-health conditions. If accompanied by tuberculosis, it will accelerate lung tissue necrosis, and finally lead to lung cancer and death. In recent years, whether it is urban or rural areas, the number of deaths caused by respiratory diseases have always been the leading cause of death in China.

      Experts believe that desulphurization gypsum is a transformed pollution source. The threat it lays to mankind is not only sub-healthy problems, such as not taking active and effective measures, it will release harmful substances and will lead to a wide spread of new diseases, its harm and the severity of the consequences than malignant tumors, AIDS, SARS, avian influenza and other outbreaks more ferocious,It must be of great concern to all mankind.

3. Food structure

      The phenomenon that many people have the sympotom of hyperlipoidemia, hyperglycemia, high blood viscosity, overweight and obesity, premature hair loss, and other sub-health status, are related to food structures.

      As we know, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, water, and vitamins are the six essential nutrients for the body. When looking at superficially, people's living standard has been greatly improved, fresh fruits and vegetables are available all year around, milk drinks, bagged or canned food for meals are available. The food structure of cross-season vegetables and fine meat makes the body long insufficiency of certain amino acids, gossypol, crude fiber and other raw nutritional ingredients.

      In addition, additives and preservatives in milk drinks, pickled foods, bagged or canned foods, excessive use of chemical fertilizers in high-temperature greenhouse vegetables, including pesticides, fungicides, herbicides and other pesticides. In addition, the high-fat and high-cholesterol chemicals in cultured chicken, duck and fish, the hormones in feed and other chemicals are important causes of many non-communicable diseases. Medical research have found that the uncontrolled and irregular diet, excessive intake of calories and fat which result in nutritional imbalance and endocrine imbalance. The sub-health symptoms of chest abdominal distension, stomach discomfort, fecal mucilage etc. will come up. In addition, while the body waste deposited at the abdomen, they will form abdominal obesity. Overweight obesity is not only about the problem of beauty, it may cause diabetes, cardiovascular disease and myocardial infarction and a variety of other diseases including cancer, cholecystitis and problems of respiratory system.

4. Toxic side effects of chemicals and synthetic drugs

      Abuse of antibiotic drugs and various healthcare products, and ecological balance damage to the body with malignant tumor release, chemotherapy, often promote the human body into diseases, into the quagmire of treatment and disease. Chemotherapy will kill any fast-dividing cells other than cancer cell, making the body tissue less resistant to germs, such as fatigue, repeated colds, decreased vision, swelling of the head, and headaches. In addition, patients are easy to dependent on many drugs used in western, and the body experiences a greater toxic side effects and damage to the liver, kidney function.

      However, it is undeniable that the 200-years western medicine history has overcome bacterial infectious diseases, and has made great achievements in many fields such as surgery. However, the toxic side effect of chemical and synthetic drugs have led to the emergence of a large number of drug-borne diseases. Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pointed out that the well-known anti-inflammatory analgesics such as Findings, Paracetamol, Voltaren, and so on, have potential risks of cardiovascular and gastrointestinal bleeding. According to statistics from health departments in 1997, China's western medicine causes 2.1 million people to attend hospitals and 192,000 die each year as a result of drug side effect (12 times of the annual death toll of more than 10 infectious diseases in China and more than RMB 4.5 billion per year for medical treatment and rescue due to adverse drug reactions). In 1998, 2.16 million people were hospitalized in the United States due to drug-induced reactions, of which 106,000 died of inefficient rescue and economic losses of $4 billion.

      As early as 1994, the International Agency for Research on Cancer has published 63 carcinogenic substances, which are benzene, beryllium and its compounds, cadmium and its compounds, hexavalent chromium compounds, nickel and its compounds, ethylene oxide, arsenic and its compounds, α-naphthylamine, 4-Aminodiphenyl, benzidine, coal tar pitch, asbestos, chloromethyl ether etc.. It turns out that some of the toxic and harmful substances that have been dormant for hundreds of millions of years are coming to us with mineral resources, and it is the human beings who have opened the Pandora's Box.

      Traditional Chinese medicine culture, which has a history of thousands of years, pursues the dialectical materialist based on ‘yin and yang’, which holds that disease is stemmed from the imbalance of elements of human body. And it advocates the homology of medicine and food and upholds balancing. Traditional Chinese medicine also attaches great importance to prevention, as early as Neijing had put forward the idea of ‘cure the to-be-disease' prevention, which is, start from sub-health, emphasize ‘prevent the disease when it has not been disease', so-called ‘Instead of curing diseases, the sage cures before it is being. Instead of managing disorders, the wise man will maintain everything in order.’

Conclusion

      As the greatest wealth of human, health is the eternal theme of human pursuit and exploration.

      Our ancestors have recognized that the human body is a microbial structure, that human is only a species of organisms in nature, and that their survival is interdependent with the physiological effects of natural climate, plants, and the rotation of seasons. At the same time, as an organic whole combining body and mind, human physiology and psychology are interdependent and restricted by each other. Reminder to the persons with sub-health: If we violate the order of nature, we will be retaliated and punished by nature. If we violate the order of society, we will not be able to realize the value of human activities. At present, China advocates “Circular Economy”, for construction of “Harmonious Socialist Society”. It emphasizes “people-oriented”. This strategy embodies the strategic decision-making that follows not only the order of nature but also order of society.

      Therefore, in view of sub-health, we must follow the law, identify the source, and start from various aspects: First of all, people should keep a happy mood and abandon bad life styles, rationally adjust the composition of food, strengthen outdoor physical exercise
in order to improve the human body's anti-disease and anti-bacterial capacity, so that they may stay away from the trouble of sub-health. Second, we must grab root for pollution control. To plants with capabilities of ecological environment adjustment and bacteria containing, we shall provide a scientific and reasonable layout for them so that we may truly realize the good wishes of human health and life longevity. (End of text)

 

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