More and more people are becoming seriously overweight. Some people suggest that the solution to this problem is to increase the price of fattening foods. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Nowadays, there is a significant upward trend of

people

overweight. Some sectors of society are in favour of increasing the

price

of the most caloric food to prevent

people

from

this

major

problem

. In my opinion, I strongly disagree with

this

idea as the

price

will not stop from

people

buying these kinds of comestible.

Subsequently

, I consider that

people

need to be better educated in having healthier habits.

To begin

with, increasing the

price

of fatty food will not stop

people

from consuming them.

For example

, statistics show that the main reason for obesity is anxiety and depression.

People

that are sad and depressed feel that they really need to eat

this

kind of food, in which case

price

will not be precisely a barrier for them as they would pay any amount of money in order to get it to satisfy

this

negative emotion they feel.

On the other hand

, increasing the

price

of selected products would be unfair to

people

who are not obese and that want to enjoy their meals with something fatty. In

this

case,

this

would be discriminatory for these

people

,

while

the overweight

problem

would still exist.

In other words

, increasing the

price

will not prevent

people

from obesity as the

problem

is deeper than just paying a bit more but

also

will impact negatively on

people

's pockets who only want to enjoy these comestibles. In conclusion, we cannot deny that

this

tendency of

people

to increase considerably their weight is a critical

problem

for societies.

However

, I completely disagree with the “possible” solution of putting higher prices on fattening foods.

Instead

of

this

, I consider that governments should attend to

this

problem

for real through educative chats and programs in schools and other institutions.