Modern children are suffering from the diseases that were once considered to be meant for adults only. Obesity is a major disease prevalent among children. What are its causes and what solutions can be offered?

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modern era, children endure some ailments that they are known as adults’ aches

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as overweight.

Obesity

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costs

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countries about 10% of

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the national medical budget

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in three adults and

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in six children are obese according to the global health organization report. In

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obesity

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is epidemic and is a major cause of heart diseases, cancers and diabetes.

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essay will discuss the reasons of

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kind of

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and the proposed solutions. There are many causes of

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disease. At its simplest,

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results from people consuming more food than their body burns. But it is a more complex problem than that as children did not want to become

over weight

usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

overweight

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weight gain is a consequence of complicated changes in the environment where food is more readily available and opportunities for physical activation

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lacking. Another cause is the way young adolescents eat has changed over the

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50 years. American community children are eating more processed food and eating out a lot more frequently.

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to that, the foods offered in restaurants, snack shops and vending machines are higher in sugar, fat and calories than what we typically prepare in our own homes. Other factors are technology and the way we build our communities that influenced our lives. Both of these two factors have left us sedentary. Children in new communities must drive to school with their parents as it is often too far to walk. And many communities are built in a way that make it unsafe to be physically active as safe routes for walking and biking to school may not even exist. There is no simple or single solution to overcome children

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. It is going to take solutions at many levels to resolve

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problem. What can each

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of us as

children families

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children, families

to make our young girls and boys healthier?

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can make our children eat more vegetables and fruits and fewer foods that are higher in fat and sugar. We can offer them to drink water

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of sugared drinks.

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to that,

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everyone, including

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including children and adults of all ages as well as ability levels need to get recommended amount of physical activity daily.

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, parents should restrict television viewing for their young children to less than two hours a day and should not put televisions in the bedroom of children. Young

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obesity

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is an alarming situation which should be controlled at its earliest. It is a mutual responsibility of both individual and government to identify the reasons of

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vulnerable disease and offer solutions to rectify it.