In many countries, being overweight has become a serious concern for many individuals. Many factors can be detected for
this
issue and several promising solutions can be drawn as well.
There are a vast number of reasons why the number of overweight
people
has increased; the most important reason can be poor diets and unhealthy lifestyles. These days, approximately all members of
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family work, especially in major cities;
therefore
,
people
do not have enough time to spend on making healthy and home-cooked food which is time-consuming and surely more expensive than fast
foods
, so They would prefer to buy fast
foods
which are not only easier to access but
also
cheaper and as we know, these unhealthy
foods
are high in fat and salt which are the main causes of overweight. Another significant reason might be that with the advances In technology and the Internet doing some daily routines has become faster and easier;
for example
, thanks to some applications like Instagram, shopping has become a lot easier and more
people
prefer to do online shopping
instead
of going to shop in person, or they can do their payments stuff easily while they are seated in front of the TV,
thus
they are less active and have less mobility;
as a result
, they will burn fewer calories and will become overweight.
Despite the mentioned reasons, with some solutions
this
problem can be tackled .
first
of all the government can encourage and educate
people
to eat healthily in some ways;
for example
, it can educate
people
by providing some cooking programs based on how to cook with healthy
foods
in a very short time or it can aware individuals by making advertisements which have warning concepts like if you continue to eat fast food what health problems will you face.
moreover
, as the
last
approach, it can impose more taxes on fast
foods
and provide healthy
foods
like vegetables, meat, and dairy with fewer prices, so
people
are more likely encourage to stop buying fast
foods
.
Secondly
, the government can impose higher taxes on online purchases and payments and
also
it can ask online shops to present some of their special discounts only on in-person purchases, so probably more individuals will encourage to leave their home and And re-experience the joy of face-to-face shopping that they have forgotten and increase their activity.
To conclude, it is true that being overweight is a growing and worldwide concern, but it is not an unsolvable problem. Human beings always find a way to survive.