Today more people are overweight than ever before. What, in your opinion, are the primary causes of this? what measures can be taken to overcome this epidemic?

Over recent years, obesity rates have sharply increased among society. There are many principal reasons for
this
phenomenon On the one hand, the busy schedule of
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modern life
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the other hand, the high consumption of
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fast and junk
food
. In
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we will discuss these both problems
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offering some measures which can control
this
issue.
Initially
, we are in the era of speed so people prefer to get anything as fast as possible even when it comes to
food
.
This
is one of the reasons why consuming fast
food
have doubled in the recent decade.
Moreover
, the majority of jobs are by sitting for about eight hours daily,
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people end up eating unhealthy
food
without doing any exercises. Overweight can lead to
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serious health problems like diabetes, heart disease and many more, in order to avoid occurring
this
we should start by changing our lifestyle.
First
of all, the workplace should allow the employees who have sitting jobs to have up to 30 minutes break to do some simple exercises
such
as Yoga or maybe walking around for couples of minutes. Another helpful thing
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be done but
this
time the government should do is to take more stringent measures with regard to fast
food
restaurants by adding more taxes due to the harm it inflicts on people’s health.
Last
but not least, due to the busy life people might not have enough time to go to the gym
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there should be
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number of gyms which are 24/7 open. To sum up, we are in a time when we cannot balance
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everything.
However
, we shouldn’t neglect our life priorities especially our health, and we can do
this
with some changes in our lifestyle.
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