儿童肥胖的问题(Childhood obesity)

Topic nowadays the problem of childhood obesity is a serious issue. What are the reasons of this situation and the harm of this .And how to tackle this problem?

Nowadays a growing number of children are obesity. According to Ebbeling, Pawlek and Ludwig (2001) as cited in Suzuk (2010), the rate of children who are extremely overweigh have risen 2.3 times to 3.3 times in the last 25 years in America, while the figure of England increased ‘’2.0-fold to 2.8-fold’’over about 10-year.These dates showed that the problem of childhood obesity is serious. This essay will explain that what factors affect children obesity and the negative effect of this situation as well as how to address this problem.

While there are a number of complicated elements which lead to childhood obesity, only two of them are mainly reasons. Firstly, sedentary life is a directly way to make childhood obesity. It is true that due to computer games which are the most children favorite activity and can attract children to sit for long hours. Thus, some children do not spend time on outside activity such as playing football, basketball, and tennis. In this way the majority of children are lack of exercise which is the best way to lose weight.

What is more, the style of eating of children cannot help them to keep normal weight. As the pressure of economy has been increasing, a great many of parents have to work for more hours than before. Thus, they cannot have sufficient time to cook for their children. In this situation，their children have no choice but to eat fast food which contain high-fat and sugar and easy to make children obesity.

Extremely weight will bring some negative effects on health in terms of body and mentality. First of all, it may bring some psychological issues such as lack of confidence and attacking others. Furthermore, some diseases such as coronary problems, sleep disturbance, diabetes as well as cancer some of them may have a direct relation with obesity. Last but not least, from an economical aspect, childhood obesity may cause much more cost in medicine which is an enormous loss to individuals and government. (Suzuki, 2010)

As childhood obesity is really harmful to children, people and government must take some measures to reverse this situation. As a government, they should build some sport facilities which can offer enough opportunities to do some sports. In china, for instance, there are a large number of children be fond of to play football and basketball at leisure time. However, they usually cannot find place where they can play. In order to experience interesting of football and basketball, they have to watch matches on the TV and play football as well as basketball games on the computer, which cannot help children to lose their weight and damage to their eyes. As individuals especially parents, they should cook some healthy food for their children even they are so busy. There is no doubt that nothing can exceed health and life. In addition, kindergarten and elementary school should teach children the harm of eating junk food, which can promote them to avoid eat fast food automatically.

In conclusion, although the problem of childhood obesity is serious, it can be addressed if all