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?

Childhood

obesity

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

is consumed

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are consumed

on a daily basis. In

this

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

this

situation.

However

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

obesity

crisis. The role of a competent and responsible

government

is to ensure the well-being of its people.

That is

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

obesity

is, the

government

should be the one to

first

realize

such

a threat, introduce and put solutions into practice.

However

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

government

has any

further

role to play. The duty to combat

obesity

in children should not fall on the

government

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

appropriate nutrients

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the appropriate nutrients

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

This

fact

also

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.

On the other hand

,

obesity

is

also

caused by lack of physical activity.

This

can be exemplified by the sedentary lifestyle

favored

preferred above all others and treated with partiality

favoured

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

government

should of course do what they can to curb the

obesity

epidemic, no matter how small their impacts might be.

Also

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

thus

need to take responsibility for their kids’ unhealthy condition.