"Creating change and improvement in people's lives through proper nutrition knowledge and scientific sports training" was chosen as the guiding mission, forming the Nutrievan Institute of Nutrition Research and Physical Development.
Doctor Do Chi Thanh (right) in a volunteer program to examine and treat poor people in Dak Lak - Photo: NVCC
"Nutrievan was born from my passion for nutrition and health. Through each project and my work, I want to contribute to the development of Vietnamese people's height," said Dr. Do Chi Thanh - founder of Nutrievan.
Combining nutrition and sports
* Nutrition and health is an eternal story and not easy to find an answer!
- Working in the hospital and doing research helped me realize that many people do not have the right knowledge about nutrition, which affects their health. I have met patients with a number of diseases that could be prevented if they had enough knowledge about proper and scientific eating. Especially chronic diseases that are very common in Vietnam such as diabetes, stroke, and cardiovascular disease.
Combining scientific nutrition with exercise will bring more comprehensive health benefits. I used those concerns to nurture the idea of building a platform that provides accurate, scientific information about nutrition and exercise to help people confidently take care of their health.
* With what you want to do, how do you rate the project so far?
- We often have periodic workshops and talk shows to share knowledge about health to develop height for children at some primary and secondary schools in Ho Chi Minh City and the Ho Chi Minh City Sports Training Center.
In addition, doctors in the Nutrievan team are conducting research and publishing scientific articles to contribute to general research not only domestically but also internationally.
In terms of community, Nutrievan currently has about 50,000 followers on the social networking platform Facebook. At the same time, we have built a scientific height development community with more than 20,000 members and have supported nearly 2,000 children to successfully develop their height.
Start with correct and sufficient understanding
* What are the current physical development indicators that you need to pursue to increase the height of Vietnamese people?
- The physical condition of Vietnamese people today has improved significantly compared to previous generations in the past. Research shows that the average height of Vietnamese youth has increased after 20 years. However, compared to other countries in the world, Vietnam is still in the top 20 countries with the lowest average height in the world.
Speaking of height, I think of Korea and Japan. Before World War II, the average height of Koreans and Japanese was similar, even shorter than that of Vietnamese people today. But now their average height has increased and improved to almost comparable to Western countries, where nutritional medicine is advanced and far ahead of our Asian region.
The biggest answer lies in optimizing nutrition for children and introducing scientific exercise into the school environment for children from a very early age. Exercise programs that encourage children to exercise and play sports every day combined with adequate scientific nutrition have significantly changed the height of at least the two countries mentioned above and developed to what it is today.
* So how can Vietnamese people have a more ideal height when it is also genetic and many other factors?
- Height is indeed a genetic factor and is influenced by many other factors such as nutrition, hormones, physical activity, sleep... Increasing height after puberty is very difficult, even impossible.
Therefore, height development needs to be focused on from the time the child is in the womb until the child begins puberty. This is the golden time for height development in children. The younger the child, the more effective the provision of nutrition and scientific exercise will be for height development during puberty and adulthood.
Doctor DO CHI THANH Many scholarships and awards
Do Chi Thanh is a nutritionist and musculoskeletal internal medicine specialist. He graduated with a postgraduate degree in pediatric nutrition from Boston University (USA) and is a member of the American and Vietnamese Sports Medicine Associations and a member of the Vietnam Osteoporosis Study Group.
The doctor, born in 1996, was fully sponsored by the US Department of State for a scholarship from the Southeast Asia Leadership Initiative (YSEALI) in the US as well as a full exchange scholarship to work at St. Mary Medical Center and Methodist Hospital in Illinois (USA).
Dr. Thanh has had 19 scientific articles published in leading US medical journals with more than 600 citations. He also won second prize at the 2022 Youth Science and Technology Conference in the Medical Industry. He also won awards for outstanding community projects and outstanding research projects in various competitions.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/lam-du-an-workshop-chia-se-kien-thuc-tang-chieu-cao-tre-em-viet-20241113221648771.htm
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