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Government vs. Parents in Childhood Obesity

The document discusses whether governments or parents have more responsibility for combating childhood obesity. It argues that while governments should ensure public health and introduce solutions, parents have a greater influence through diet and encouraging exercise, and thus more responsibility for their children's health.

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Government vs. Parents in Childhood Obesity

The document discusses whether governments or parents have more responsibility for combating childhood obesity. It argues that while governments should ensure public health and introduce solutions, parents have a greater influence through diet and encouraging exercise, and thus more responsibility for their children's health.

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In many countries, children are becoming overweight and unhealthy.

Some people think that


the government should have the responsibility. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Sample mẫu:
Childhood obesity has become a typical sign of deteriorating public health the world over, especially
in Western-based countries, where massive amounts of unhealthy food is consumed on a daily
basis. In this regard, some people believe governments should do whatever is needed to improve
this situation. However, we should not single out governments as the only ones responsible for
combating the childhood obesity crisis.
The role of a competent and responsible government is to ensure the well-being of its people. That
is to say, if there is any serious threat to the people, as childhood obesity is, the government should
be the one to first realize such a threat, introduce and put solutions into practice. However, apart
from encouraging regular exercise and healthy diets, I doubt that the government has any further
role to play.
The duty to combat obesity in children should not fall on the government alone because parents are,
for good reasons, a greater source of influence on children’s unhealthy life. For one, an obese child
is often malnourished because they do not receive appropriate nutrients from their food, a truth that
reveals parents’ poor choice of diet for their kids. This fact also suggests that parents can have a
direct impact on improving their children’s health by choosing healthy eating patterns that contain
less sugar and fat. On the other hand, obesity is also caused by lack of physical activity. This can be
exemplified by the sedentary lifestyle favored by a large number of youths nowadays. And parents
are the only ones who can either encourage or force their children to do more physical tasks or
exercise.
The government should of course do what they can to curb the obesity epidemic, no matter how
small their impacts might be. Also, I feel the parents of obese children are to blame, and thus need
to take responsibility for their kids’ unhealthy condition.

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