The timely news article with current data from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (pictured above) captures the rationale for our planned nursing intervention!
The title: Poor Diets Harming Youth. In sum, Chinese middle schoolers are eating more sugary beverages, ice cream, fried food, and poor - no breakfast than they did back in 1998. According to data from the 2011 Report on Chinese Students' Nutrition and Health Conditions, more children and juveniles have seen their health harmed by undernourishing breakfasts, imbalanced diets and a habit of eating in restaurants or fast food establishments.
Taken from the May 25th China Daily News~ an English newspaper we read in the lobby of the Foreign Experts Building~ the article lays blame on Chinese parents, who focus almost exclusively upon their kids' schooling, but pay little to no attention to their diets, which may influence their entire lives.
We (my daughter and I) arrived safely in China on May 22nd after an uneventful flight from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to Guangzhou. My focus was to secure permissions to provide a cross-cultural health intervention to address the concerns mentioned above.
We secured permission from the Jinan University International Affairs Office, the President and Principal of the Affiliated Middle School, and made specific arrangements for the arrival of our nursing team.
Amelia and I arrived in Guangzhou on May 22nd, and we returned home (exhaused and happy) on May 29th.
As a side note, as soon as we arrived in China, Amelia and I looked for this blog! Although we were able to find the University of Wisconsin~ Eau Claire homepage, and a picture of our blog ~ the content is entirely blocked. We are guessing the Chinese government manages censorship by making the image of facebook, U-tube, and blogs available~ but blocks the content. Internet is painfully slow, however many websites are available, including a Chinese version of facebook.
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