The percentage of overweight children in western society has increased by almost 20% in the last ten years. Discuss the causes and effects of this disturbing trend.

Children’s

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Child

health care is one of the concerns of their parents and society. Due to the change of people’s diet and lifestyle in

past few decades

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the past few decades

, increased percentage of obese children is a serious concern. Regarding

this

problem,

this

essay will discuss about their diet and lifestyle as its causes and effects on their life. Since the rapid grow of fast-food restaurants, children and their parents are easy to get access to those restaurants.

However

, those restaurants provide high calorie food

such

as fried potatoes, hamburgers, and juice, which contain large amount of sugars. Those are nutritiously imbalanced food and it is not suitable to provide for children. If children eat those

food

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foods

frequently, they might get extra calories, which is far higher than the required calories for them.

Consequently

,

this

may lead them to overweight for their age group. Another reason of the increasing

number

of obese children in western society is rooted in their lifestyles. The unprecedented improvement of technology and various

number

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numbers

of TV games, children are likely to play inside rather than go outside to play soccer or baseball. It is clear that the

number

of children, who are allowed to use

devises

an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase 'left to your own devices'

devices

such

as computers, iPads and smartphone, has been increased in past decades. Because of

this

, smaller

number

of children play outside of their house. Those

overweighting

cause serious effects on children’s life. As the example of

this

, they may be buried by other children at school.

As a result

of

this

, they might refuse to go to school and lose their self-confidence. Co-occurred health problem would be another problem. Because of the

overweighting

, they may not be able to do enough exercise which are expected for their age groups.

Consequently

, those obese children cannot train their muscles and

strengthen of their

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strengthen their

bones. To conclude, increased

number

of overweight children in western countries should take seriously in the world. With regards of those causes and effects, people should consider their children’s diet and lifestyles.