Obesity was once considered a disease of adults; however, it is being increasingly common among children. Why do you think this is happening? What can be done to help children stay healthy?

Obesity

is mostly portrayed as a disease that could happen mostly to adults but now it happens to

children

as well. There are some possible reasons for

this

phenomenon,

for example

, eating behaviour of fast

food

for the family with

kids

and less physical activity for

children

nowadays. Fast

food

restaurants are getting famous as an option to spend their family time. Almost every weekend, we could see parents with their

kids

are having meals in a junk

food

bar. Fast

food

is already known as unhealthy

food

which contains too much salt and mostly has not enough nutrition.

Therefore

,

this

family eating behaviour could risk

children

's

obesity

. On the other side,

kids

these days mostly spend their time with gadgets rather than being active with friends and doing physical activities.

This

lead to unstable of the input-output process of their energy and

finally

the

children

would have an

obesity

problem. To reduce the potential of

obesity

in

kids

, parents should understand the actual needs of their

children

and feed them with nutritious

food

. It is probably harder than finding fast

food

,

however

it would affect in a long term. It would affect the

children

's growth and health. The parents

also

have to support their

kids

to be more active physically and restrict the use of gadgets.