Record-breaking Hong Kong powerlifter and dietitian now battles bad online health advice

Record-breaking Hong Kong powerlifter Jaclyn Hei Tsang is pictured at a private gym in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, on December 29, 2025. Also a dietitian, personal trainer, author, and PhD candidate, she tackles online health myths and bad advice on her Instagram page, @fitness_dietitian_hk. -- Photo: Jonathan Wong / SCMP

BEIJING (SCMP): 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.

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.