Today many children suffer from obesity and poor health. This is a direct result of today's lifestyle. Give reasons to explain why children are overweight and also offer some solutions to address this issue

One of the biggest problems that we currently have with our lifestyle is obesity. The percentage of obese children nowadays is rising heavily every year and I think that we as a community are not doing enough to address it and try to fix it. First of all,
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obesity existed at the start of time, it did not become a real issue that millions of people suffer from until the 20th century when people started to build unhealthy habits about food,
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, the youth get persuaded easily, when they see something that looks good like a candy bar or a chocolate they immediately crave it without thinking about whether it's healthy or no,
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, children of
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generation lack attention span which would result in them not having the ability to watch a video or a movie without a snack and what usually end up happening is that they eat
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too much
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focused on whatever they are watching and what makes it even worse is that parents are not educating them enough on
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matter because a lot of them are obese themselves, which is why
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problem revolves around our lifestyle and the fact that we are not even trying to find a solution for it.
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obesity is still one of the biggest issues of our generation, we still have to find a
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to fix it and in my opinion, the best
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is to start from the beginning,
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as grown-ups should start teaching the younger generation that eating healthy is not a
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to live and you can choose whether you want to do it not
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because it is not a choice it's a necessity, we cannot say yes every time a
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wants to eat a burger from Burger King, we need to start telling them no and explain to them why we are refusing because if you don't, they are going to think that you said no becuse you are a bad parent when in fact, you are doing the right thing,
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, some parents try to use
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matter to become the "good parent" which could result in a situation that a
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asks his mom for a candy bar and when he refuses, he goes to ask the dad and the father says yes in order to earn the
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's love and build the idea that he is the good parent and the mother is the bad one.
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,
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issue is hard because it's deep in our ecosystem, we still have to try and fix it by building healthy habits ourselves so we can pass it on to our children, you can't convince the
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that eating an ice cream every day is bad from him if you are doing exactly that.

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You identified the problem of obesity and discussed its causes and solutions, which is key to the task.
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Your ideas are relevant, and you clearly show concern about children's health.

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