Obesity always one of the big issue in the world, not just in United States, but people who lived around the world as a whole.
Obesity may mislead people it was not a poverty disease, but it was wrong. Because poverty tends to don’t have money buys foods for their needs. This is not to be confused with adequate nutrition. As poverty level increases, the desire for parents to feed their children "filling" food that will satisfy them for longer periods of time increases as well. This means that instead of getting nutrient beneficial food, these children who live in a developing countries are begin fed high carbohydrate, high fat and low nutrition food products. At the same time, if they keep eating high carbohydrate and high fat foods. This will cause them getting more chances on chronic diseases. This is an increasingly dangerous pathway. The closer that we get to these dangerous diets, the more health problems that are being introduced into these poverty hidden areas. These are people who are already struggling to make payments for the necessities of life. These are people who live on the bare minimum, who have difficulty dealing with any additional bills. What ends up happening is that the more situations like this occur, the greater likely that our already burdened hospitals will have to deal with an even greater influx of patients. Our hospitals have enough to deal with, and obesity and hunger need to be on the front line of priorities for the world.
Faced with tight financial choices, families are forced to make difficult decisions. Rather than let their child go to bed hungry, parents provide food that does not necessarily have high nutrients but is more filling than healthier options. A way to reduce the number of these chronic cases is to provide those in need with proper balanced diets. The number of other diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, associated with obesity all can be avoided with healthy lifestyle choices.
ReplyDeleteAlthough it can be considered “improvement” that less children are now dying from hunger, it is undoubtedly true that the issue is not completely solved. Even though children are being fed, many of them are being fed food for the purpose of keeping them alive within a manageable budget, without consideration of the side effects. A good start to tackling obesity is to go to root and find ways to lower the cost of nutritious foods while raising the costs on unhealthy foods that cause obesity. Many countries in Europe and the US are already taking the small step of making unhealthy foods more costly, but have yet to lower the cost of nutritious foods.
ReplyDeleteThough it is bad that these children are not getting adequate nutrition, they are getting the best they can get. It's better to have a fat kid who has SOMETHING to eat and SOME form of fuel (fat) that they can burn off when there is nothing to eat; rather than a child who is underweight. Even if the child is getting foods with adequate nutrition, they aren't getting a lot because the family cannot afford it; because of the small amount, the child would be malnourished anyways. So really, feeding them foods high in carbs is the lesser of two evils.
ReplyDeleteObesity is a health concern that needs to be taken more seriously. Obesity is due to overconsumption of cheap unhealthy foods and is a reflection of who has money and who does not. Healthy food is not cheap and therefore is eaten by those who have money. Unhealthy food like McDonalds is cheap and is eaten by the poor. Our society needs to find a way to make healthy food cheap so the health status of the world can increase.
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