Nowadays, obesity has become a huge challenge in different countries, not only for people that have to face these kinds of problems, but also for the governments which have to make public policy decisions focused on how to manage this situation. According to different sources such as the international organization of food, this is a reality that affects at least 60% of the population globally. Something surprising is that the obesity rate in children has reached a top place, even bigger than the adults’ one and has been increasing in the last few years.
In this point, you could ask yourself about who is the guilty one when speaking of the number of obese people. First of all, you need to keep in mind that this medical condition just reflects that the population do not have enough interest in their own health. This issue is alarming and shocking because if citizens do not act on taking care of themselves, no one else will do it. Additionally, being obese in some cultures just shows your wealth power and your income level. So, for that reason, human beings within those customs just have terrible food habits and eat more than they should do it, making truly hard to change this mindset.
Another important point to highlight is that in some territories, the public authorities do not make decisions about how to treat this illness. For example, this happens a lot in the United States, where you do not have all the nutritional chart behind the products you get so is difficult to try to avoid these ingredients and be conscious of the things you are eating. Luckily, in some countries such as Colombia or Mexico, this topic has been set on the table and many experts have talked about how to address it. Some of the solutions are oriented towards developing campaigns to make people feel more conscious about the relevance of having a good lifestyle putting in the packages labels to identify when a food has an excessive amount of carbs or sugars.
To conclude, how I see it this subject is not about who is the guilty one. The discussion should be aligned with a cowork between citizens and governments where we find out for effective solutions. Of course, if people do not understand the importance of their habits, nothing is going to change. Additionally, if governments do not act to protect their inhabitants by forbidding dangerous resources, they will remain vulnerable in this society.