The best way to tackle the problem of obesity is to educate people about healthy eating. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Obesity

is one of the serious health issues that a lot of developed countries face today, yet many of them have difficulties to tackle the problem.

However

, despite providing healthy eating guidance is a good

way

to solve the issue, I do not agree that it is the best

way

.

To begin

with, it is undeniable that people having a healthy diet habit are crucial to improve their health status that would keep them away from

obesity

. In fact, people in modern society have more choices in what to eat, but they have little knowledge what the

food

they intake brings on their bodies.

Likewise

, many diseases regarding

food

like strokes and heart diseases are resulted from a lack of knowledge of healthy diet that can be solved by offering a proper healthy eating education by professional nutritionists.

However

, despite the truth that health behaviour can be changed by the nutrition education, I still believe that taxing heavily on sweets and fast

food

companies is

way

better to reduce the morbidity rate of

obesity

.

Moreover

, studies indicate that

food

contained too much sugar and oil is the main reason for

obesity

. Fast

food

restaurants like McDonald's,

for example

, offer cheap

food

that even younger generation can afford and they tend to frequent there after school. If the fast

food

restaurants are not affordable for people, they will find alternatives that offer better nutritious

food

.

Finally

, probably the best method of tackling the issue of

obesity

is a free check-up system in local hospitals. Usually, people cannot notice their bad nutritious habit and tend to overlook the

first

symptoms that can be detected easily from medical doctors at an early stage. Local clinics can offer free checkups for patients who have risks of

obesity

, since the guidance is most convincing when it is done by professionals like doctors. To sum up,

although

I acknowledge that giving education on healthy diet is a good

way

to treat the situation that people are more and more suffering from

obesity

today, I,

however

, believe that imposing heavy tax for sugar and fast

food

industries and setting a free check-up on

obesity

in local clinic are much better.