{"id":356778,"date":"2026-01-07T09:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/356778\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:37:09","slug":"record-breaking-hong-kong-powerlifter-and-dietitian-now-battles-bad-online-health-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/356778\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking Hong Kong powerlifter and dietitian now battles bad online health advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<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<p>Today, the 33-year-old dietitian, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3279292\/how-family-inspired-hong-kong-teens-transformation-chubby-champion-powerlifter?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">powerlifter<\/a> 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.<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:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/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\"\/>Tsang came first in her weight division at the Asian Pacific African Bench Press Classic Championship 2023. Photo: courtesy of Jaclyn Tsang<\/p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaclyn Hei Tsang was working at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong as a clinical dietitian in 2021&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[137189,35230,137190,48433,7431,137187,137196,6647,137193,102,6875,137191,137195,137192,137188,8813,6636,2532,82136,9725,16965,137194,39558,56,54,55,9790],"class_list":["post-356778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-asian-powerlifting-federation","tag-build-muscle","tag-cut-weight","tag-dietitian","tag-diets","tag-education-university-of-hong-kong","tag-fairwood","tag-fitness","tag-fitness-nutrition-training-centre","tag-health","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-benchpress-championship","tag-hong-kong-olympic","tag-hong-kong-powerlifting-championships","tag-hong-kong-powerlifting-federation","tag-national-health-service","tag-nutrition","tag-personal-trainer","tag-powerlifting","tag-protein","tag-queen-elizabeth-hospital","tag-siobhan-haughey","tag-sports-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-university-of-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}