In many countries, children are becoming overweight and unhealthy. Some people think that the government should have the responsibility. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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has become a typical sign of deteriorating public health the world over, especially in Western-based countries, where massive amounts of unhealthy food

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are consumed

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regard, some people believe governments should do whatever is needed to improve

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situation.

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, we should not single out governments as the only ones responsible for combating the childhood

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crisis. The role of a competent and responsible

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is to ensure the well-being of its people.

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to say, if there is any serious threat to the people, as childhood

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is, the

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should be the one to

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realize

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a threat, introduce and put solutions into practice.

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, apart from encouraging regular exercise and healthy diets, I doubt that the

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has any

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role to play. The duty to combat

obesity

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in children should not fall on the

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alone because parents are, for good reasons, a greater source of influence on children’s unhealthy life. For one, an obese child is often malnourished because they do not receive

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the appropriate nutrients

from their food, a truth that reveals parents’ poor choice of diet for their kids.

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fact

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suggests that parents can have a direct impact on improving their children’s health by choosing healthy eating patterns that contain less sugar and fat.

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,

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caused by lack of physical activity.

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can be exemplified by the sedentary lifestyle

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preferred above all others and treated with partiality

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by a large number of youths nowadays. And parents are the only ones who can either encourage or force their children to do more physical tasks or exercise. The

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should of course do what they can to curb the

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epidemic, no matter how small their impacts might be.

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, I feel the parents of obese children are to blame, and

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need to take responsibility for their kids’ unhealthy condition.