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Childhood Obesity, Over 340 million children are now obese or overweight -…
Childhood Obesity
Causes
Lack of exercises
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With more free time and less parental supervision => children are more prone to picking up harmful habits => demotivate them from ever exercising
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Unhealthy diet
fast food
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Affordability, speediness
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Economic factors
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Healthy products cost a lot to manufacture, thus hard to buy
A healthy diet costs $1.50 more than the unhealthy one for a day, which is $2000 more a year (Harvard School of Public Health, 2013)
Genetic disease
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influenced by medical therapy, drugs, medicine.
Solutions
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Promote healthy diet
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enroll athletes in commercial programs, campaigns and events to galvanize children to consume healthy and beneficial food.
Governmental efforts
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Increase taxation on unhealthy food products, in particular products with high sugar and fat content=> disincentivize producers and consumers of these products
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Increase funding in healthy food production, availability, and affordability
Subsidizing healthy food products that are currently under-consumed, providing more TV coverage for the promotions of these products => incentivize production and consumption I
Promote sport competitions in general (eg. football league, basketball league, ...) => inspire young children to participate in sports
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emotional support
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involves parents, friends and peers in daily diet to offer more assistance to over weight children
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