{"id":26477,"date":"2026-01-07T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=26477"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:01:41","slug":"record-breaking-hong-kong-powerlifter-and-dietitian-now-battles-bad-online-health-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=26477","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking Hong Kong powerlifter and dietitian now battles bad online health advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Jaclyn Hei Tsang was working at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong as a clinical dietitian in 2021 when she left her job to become a professional powerlifter.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Just a year after she became a full-time athlete, she set a Hong Kong record in the under-57kg (125lb) weight class when she bench pressed 90kg at the 2022 Hong Kong Powerlifting Championships.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the same competition, she squatted 120kg and dead lifted 151kg, for a total weight count of 361kg \u2013 also a Hong Kong record.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Today, the 33-year-old dietitian, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">powerlifter<\/span> and personal trainer \u2013 and PhD candidate in sport science at the Education University of Hong Kong \u2013 is a fixture in the city\u2019s health and wellness arena, often appearing on talk shows and at sports events to speak about fitness.<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-0 e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tsang came first in her weight division at the Asian Pacific African Bench Press Classic Championship 2023. Photo: courtesy of Jaclyn Tsang\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/01\/07\/4f871099-3114-4b6b-b739-9fe5b906ad76_5261d773.jpg\" title=\"Tsang came first in her weight division at the Asian Pacific African Bench Press Classic Championship 2023. Photo: courtesy of Jaclyn Tsang\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1ixmelf e1gf69pb1\">Tsang came first in her weight division at the Asian Pacific African Bench Press Classic Championship 2023. Photo: courtesy of Jaclyn Tsang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tsang says there are many health myths on the internet, with much unfounded advice on which diet to follow or which supplement to take for a successful fitness journey.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In her role as a dietitian and personal trainer, she is on a mission to debunk the myths \u2013 mostly through her Instagram page, @fitness_dietitian_hk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3338847\/record-breaking-hong-kong-powerlifter-and-dietitian-now-battles-bad-online-health-advice?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaclyn Hei Tsang was working at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong as a clinical dietitian in 2021 when she left her job to become&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1329,4525,7406,15389,1714,3569,5231,500,9612,15388],"class_list":["post-26477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-advice","tag-bad","tag-battles","tag-dietitian","tag-health","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-online","tag-powerlifter","tag-recordbreaking","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}