the problem of OBESITY in Spain is getting bigger
you can read about it here:
http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2010/10/16/obesity-public-enemy-number-one/
what do you think about this issue, and what solutions can you come up with?
phrase some of your ideas with the 2nd conditional
eg. if children cooked with their parents, then both would take more interest in their diet
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I think that this news is true but the adults have to teach children about the healthy food and they have to eat all the kind of food: vegetables, fruits, legumes, fish... and practice sports. At the school they must to have a healthy diet instead of fried food, sweets or cakes...
ReplyDeleteI think the answer is to make more daily exercise, maybe walking, cycling or swimming.
I think that the main cuse of the obesity in the spanish children is children have changed their habbits: in terms of food and sedentary.
ReplyDeleteChildren sepend their free time play at the computer or playstation games. The relationsships with other kids tend to be through the social nets, and they never do any kind of sports. Moreover, parents don't have any time to do the cook, because the job, and finally they decide give money to them for lunch, and obviusly, this is a risk for the health of the kids.
Nowadays more and more children have lunch in their schools since both parents work and they cannot meet them at lunch time as it used to be long time ago. Diets in schools are not as healthy as they should be, and it would be better if they had lunch at home. On the other hand, children spend most of their free time playing video games instead of practising some sports. If they did more sports, they would not have problems with their weight.
ReplyDeleteI thought that most obese children were the British. Amazing dates in Spain!! In my opinion I think that this statistic has big differences between our regions. Nor should we be alarmist, now eats better than ever, more product variety and life expectancy is very high.
ReplyDeleteThe evolution of video games will lead us towards more interactive and more user activity. This is a patch against a sedentary lifestyle.
In conclusion, you should eat healthy, with olive oil, make sports and above all be happy.
I think the problem is because the lifestyle of families has changed in the last years.
ReplyDeleteBefore women worked at home and had time to cook fresh and made differents meals all the days. Families now spend their time working and don`t have time to cook and eat healthy.
The childrens have to eat all kinds of food. If they tried it, they might like it.
I think another problem is childrens do less sport and spend more time at home playing with game consoles and watching tv. If they didn`t do more excersise, they wouldn`t be healthy.
well, i didn´t know that obesity in spain it is one of the biggest problem for childs. i don´t know why but i thought it was american, but anyway. in my opinion the problem is that we have everything that we need as close as possible. And the education of childs (and parents) are not reaaly healthy. A large percentaje of population (before economic crisis)has not problem to buy everything they need, so, how are you going to say no to your child when he wants a donuts??
ReplyDeletesome of families think that if the child is a little chubby is a healthy signal, but actually it is not always true.
if childs and parents will know the consecuences, maybe they think about how to change its feed.
I think that the responsibility for such problems is mostly of family, school and society. Both within the family and at school should be encouraged a healthy diet.
ReplyDeleteAlthough it is also important social impact since we are surrounded by fast food restaurants and there is increasing demand.
If the family and the school worked together, the children might have a better feeding.
To change this mentality it's necessary know about the consequence and recognize if my childrens have this kind of problem it´s because there are something that i´m doing badly
Child obesity is a problem that can be resolve with education from parents. If parents got used to correct nutrition and to practice sport, teenagers wouldn't have this problem.
ReplyDeleteA teenager don't need a low-calorie diet, only prefer physical activity to videogames and television, and a balanced diet.
I think that the problem of obesity it´s not only in Spain, i believe it´s a pandemic. There is a group of causes, among them we have the change of lifestyle and Diet.
ReplyDeleteNowadays the children eat lots of Fast food, or food with lots of fat and carbohydrates and we all now that the kids don´t do much excercise ass a few years ago, that´s because the videogames that have improve in recent years.
To try to change this problem we should change some lifestyle, for example:
- If parents spend more time with their children the kids will play with their videogames les time.
- If we teach our kids how good the excercise is and practice it with them, they will do it without pressure.
Like Guillermo, I think the problem of obesity is in all the world. Fast food and a less active life are the two main problems.
ReplyDeleteIn the specific case of Spain, people have left the traditional Mediterranean diet, rich in vegetables and fruit. That, linked to the worrying article fact of 40 percent of young people with a lack of activity, explains why Spain is the third country in the world in child obesity.
I think that the problem of obesity it´s not only in Spain, I believe it has a problem in a lot of countries.
ReplyDeleteIn spain the first cause is the teenagers don´t practice a sport, only they play the videogames, and the second cause is , in general, the spanish society only eat fast food, greasy food.
People must eat healthy food, but people only ate fast food, they would get really fat.
The change is easy, people must do a sports and they eat healthy food.
The obesity´s problem in Spain is growing because the parents don´t have time to cook the children´s food and they buy a lot of precooked food that it´s quicker and children prefer it, then the parents don´t have to fight with the children to eat. In the other place, the problem is the inactivity. Few years ago, childrens used to play every day in the street or wherever place where they could run, jump …. They used to do exercise, however today children are every day in the house playing computers games, with the mobiles, with the PC… they have an absolutly sedentary life, and this is terrible for their growth. Parents has to become aware about the importance of eat healthy and do exercises for the growth of their childrens.
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