All over the world, societies are facing a growing problem with obesity. This problem affects both children and adults. What are the reasons for this rise in obesity? How could it be tackled?

Task :All over the world, societies are facing a growing problem with obesity. This problem affects both children and adults. What are the reasons for this rise in obesity? How could it be tackled?

Over the last few years, being overweight has become a serious problem in the society. These days, the problem does not affect children but also adults. This essay will look at the reasons for this and propose some solutions.

One of the main causes of the problem is that more and more people eat fast food such as chips, hamburgers and fried chicken. In fact, nowadays, people become busier so they prefer to buy pre-prepared food in the supermarket or shop rather than cooking a healthy meal at home. But these food contract high salt and cholesterol which is not good for their heath and can cause fatness. The solution is for the government to increase sales tax on food that is considered to have bad effects on people’s heath. This will make consumers decrease their intake of this type of food and decide to make the food that have plenty of nutrition.

An additional reason for obesity is that many families have inactive life. The high quality of life and having many facilities make their lifestyle lazier. As a consequence, actually, people tend to technological activities such as chatting on the Internet, watching films or playing video games. A good case in point is that according to some researches, more than 80 percents of children would rather use electronic devices for relaxing than play outside. In addition, adults who are office workers usually have to be stuck behind the desk and have no shortage of work so that they do not have abilities to do sports. To tackle this problem, people need to be encouraged in doing more physical exercises. Everyone has to adjust habit on their own and go to fitness centers or public gardens in their free time. For children, parents should take them to parks with aims of making them play with their friends. Besides, schools and colleges must add sports in education programs to build up students’ fitness.

A third factor in the problem is that lots of people skip the meal during their working time and lead to overeat at diner one. In fact, this meal is so essential to maintain the digestion’s function efficiently. If one person often eats much after hard work, the stomach working system will be broken, which make him or suffer from digestive troubles and he may be have excessive weight eventually. The way forward could be that people have to order themselves to eat some things during the working time, which is able to keep their weight stable.

In summary, obesity has become much more popular in many countries, due to junk food, lack of physical activities and habit of skipping the lunch. My view is that the government needs to raise the tax on unhealthy food, the organizations such as schools and universities should teach sports more often and each person charge to have good habits to get fit life.