The increasing overweight rates among minors raise the question of accountability. While some voices claim that authorities should tackle the issue, others hold that families are to insure healthy habits for the young. This essay discusses both perspectives and argues that lifestyle is built at home.
On the one hand, public policies should regulate publicity on sugar and carbohydrates products aimed at underage consumers. This would reduce exposure to the risk of children demanding and insisting on having sweets indefinitely, with no limitations and no balance whatsoever. Furthermore, introducing, for example, a higher amount of mandatory sports classes in schools could also help minors maintain a suitable shape. However, the reach of government action is rather indirect and still needs specific implementation.
On the other hand, caretakers have the strongest and the most direct influence on children when it comes to the main aspects of life, such as food and health. If all adults embraced a healthy way of living based on frequent outdoor activities, this would create a culture where children enjoy and give importance to this kind of approach, replicating the same model as they grow up. Moreover, parents choose what to purchase and what to leave aside; therefore, they have an immediate impact on the diets adopted by their sons and daughters.
In conclusion, while some people attribute to governmental factors the responsibility for the rising levels of obesity - and they have the right to, others - myself included - hold that the root cause of overweight in children is the place where in the end everything is decided: family.
The increasing overweight rates among minors raise the question of accountability. While
some
voices claim that authorities should tackle the issue, others hold that families are to insure healthy habits for the young. This essay discusses both perspectives and argues that lifestyle
is built
at home.
On the one hand, public policies should regulate publicity on sugar and carbohydrates products aimed at underage consumers. This would
reduce
exposure to the
risk
of
children
demanding and insisting on having sweets
indefinitely
, with no limitations and no balance whatsoever.
Furthermore
, introducing,
for example
, a higher amount of mandatory sports classes in schools could
also
help
minors maintain a suitable shape.
However
, the reach of
government
action is
rather
indirect and
still
needs specific implementation.
On the other hand
, caretakers have the strongest and the most direct influence on
children
when it
comes
to the main aspects of life, such as food and health. If all adults embraced a healthy way of living based on frequent outdoor activities, this would create a culture where
children
enjoy and give importance to this kind of approach, replicating the same model as they grow up.
Moreover
, parents choose what to
purchase
and what to
leave
aside;
therefore
, they have an immediate impact on the diets adopted by their sons and daughters.
In conclusion
, while
some
people
attribute to governmental factors the responsibility for the rising levels of obesity
-
and they have the right to, others
-
myself included
-
hold that the root cause of overweight in
children
is the place where in the
end
everything
is decided
: family.
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