2020 TSMA

74 2020 Taiwan Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association Cross-industry Cooperation and Network to Combat against the Chronical Diseases with Substantial Effects and Efficiency Dr. Yu-Hsin Hu (Martin Hu) Anesthesiologist/ Certified personal trainer Department of Anesthesiology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital Changing with the westernized eating habits, people could easily find the high-sugar, high-fat and high-salt food in lots of places. Moreover, modern people face high pressure at work with long working hours. Therefore, it becomes very common people eat out for daily meals. Unavoidably, the sedentary work and lifestyle gets prevailing and necessary at work and home. Under double circumstances, apart from the increasing saving at the bank account, our blood sugar, blood pressure, and weight also goes up unnoticeably. Currently, there are more than two million people in Taiwan are found to have diabetes. A quarter of Taiwanese people are having high blood pressure. Nearly half of the population are overweight or obese. These above-mentioned modern civilized illness are highly prevailing. They do not only affect the life quality of patients and family members but also create high medical expense to treat the related complications. And that is also the key factor why the income of the National Health Insurance runs after the expenses. With regard to the above-mentioned chronical sub-healthy group, they need to take medical treatment. Apart from that, they shall develop the habit of doing exercise with sufficient time at