Overweight Children

More and more children nowadays are getting overweight. This will definely cause serious problems for them. Why do you think so many children are overweight? What could be done to solve this problem?

In our modern world, childern are prone to obesity. Obviously, they will suffer from various diseases in the future. Therefore, to overcome this problem, some steps need to be taken and the reasons behind it should be also considered.

Initially, one of the causes for children’s being fat is their eating fast food too much. Fast food attacts them because it is apertizing but it has meat and high rate of fat which mainly makes them obese if they eat it often. Moreover, parents do not strictly ban them from eating this kind of food, so it leads to their kids’ high demand for fast food. Another reason is that they become more and more sedentary. Children today do not seem to be interested in being outside and playing sports which is definitely good for them physically and mentally. Instead, they spend all day staying at home and watching TV. As a result, they get overweight.

Notwithstanding, every problem can be solved if we have the proper way to solve it. First, parents must encourange their children to go outside more and play a kind of sports, especially the one that requires lots of strength and energy such as football or volleyball. They should do this continuously, and the result that they will get is that their kids will be keen on playing sports and automatically do it without being reminded. Second, parents have to restrict children to eating fast food once a month or less. Furthermore, they need to tempt children into eating more vegetables by cooking them with their favourite food. For instance, children will eat carrots and cabbage if they are cooked with beef or pork that children like.

In brief, fast food and always being inside are the two main reason for this trend. However, we can lessen this by making children play sports and eat vegetables more.

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