Band 4+: An increasing number of children are overweitght which result in many problem when they grow older both in terms of their health and health care costs. Why do you think so many children are overweight? What can be done to solve this problem?

An increasing number of children are overweight which could result many problems when they grow older, both in terms of health and healthcare costs. Why do you think so many children are overweight? What could be done to solve this problem?

Due to the sedentary and modern life style an rampant number of children are facing overweight and encounter serious health and finincial crisis. I think if government, educational institution and individuals takes some necessary measures to tackle this problem it could helf remedies.

Young people are getting obese due to the steady lifestyle and over eating of fast food and junk food. At present, most of the children have very limited time to go field for sports and use vehicles for going schools. Since their physical movement is very limited and stay longer time in house in front of television set or gaming they start to weight gain and as a result become bulky. Moreover, as parents stay busy wholeday they are unable to make food at house and children taken their meals from hotel or from open space which is very unhealthy and of course sugary as result they become big sige. For example, a recent study conducted by Dhaka university and they found that children who taken street food are 80% bulky compare to the children who taken mean at house every family spent a huge amount of money for healthcare and healthcare related cost.

State, local government and family can tackle this problem very smartly if they have plan to wash out the overweighout related problem. The first and foremost, government should discourage the food manufacturing companies to add sugar and any other chemicals which is related to weightgain. If any institution break the instructions imposed by government agency the company should be furnished and pay huge fine. Educational institutions must include sports and other physical fitness related content to their curriculum and must by composer for every students. Every society as well as family must ensure the children to go to the sports for minimum one hour almost every day without any argument. If every sectors do their job appropriately may overweight problem reduced very easily and effectively.

In conclusion, since overweight is a problem not for individuals but for the the society every individuals have some responsibility to tackle this problem.