Children's Obesity in the Uk
Children obesity in the UK Obesity, which is defined as ‘abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health’, nowadays is a growing problem in most developed countries and is responsible for a significant degree of morbidity and mortality in the world. This phenomenon, in last decade, widely spread especially in the United States of America, has recently affected western part of Europe as well. Obesity in adults has been an increasing problem for many years. However, there is a major and constantly rising problem of obesity in children too. One of the countries where the overweight issue, as far as the children are concerned, has reached the critical state is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The combination of a changes to eating habits and less active lifestyle are blamed of the rise of obesity. In the last few years the statistics of obese children tripled, which is a warning sign for parents, teachers and the government to take actions to reverse the rising tide of this so called ‘social disease’. Britain has an outstanding traditional food such as Yorkshire pudding, Lancashire Hotpot or fresh salmon from Northern Ireland. Unfortunately, currently it is difficult to find good British food as people simply eat it lesser and lesser. There is a great cultural diversity in the UK and that is why new cultural trends, including eating patterns spread to it and mixed. Local Indian and Chinese restaurants are more popular than traditional British ones. People in Britain are more likely to eat fast food or convenience meals, which are already cooked and all you have to do is just heat them up in microwave. It is very popular among children and teenagers. It is not time-consuming, easily accessible and ,what is more important, cheap. Due to that the problem of obesity, particularly in children will never be solved. The most commonly chosen
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