There are hundreds of possible solutions floating in the air but some of the most popular are changing the mindset of americans, community programs/help, and also government regulation. To explore the first option our mindset as Americans puts us in a very bad shape to make real changes to ours or our children's lifestyles. The first thing is changing our views as consumers. Us as consumers play a very important role on the obesity epidemic since we make our own families personalized choices about what to eat and how to live. If the purchaser can be impacted with understandable nourishment data and an assortment of solid nutritional options, maybe people can start to address weight gain on an individual level. In addition to social and mental
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Besides, buyers are often confused by the clashing messages with respect to fat, carbs, protein, and calories. Shoppers need clarity and dependable nutritional data to settle on proper dietary choices. Apart from just what our children eat. We must also get into the habit of exercising more often which sort of brings us to another solution that has been proposed and locally implemented. Community programs and help to increase overall health and lower obesity rates, especially in children. These programs are things like community exercising and classes. Also things like creating healthy food environments. This involves promoting locally grown produce, more awareness of healthy foods, and implementing harsher requirements for food in childcare, schools, worksites, and hospitals. There are many different types of strategies to increase physical activity in the community. These include efforts to increase the places where people can be active, such as opening school facilities to public use and creating walking trails. Some strategies may involve community design changes as …show more content…
This idea has already been successfully implemented in some European countries (Reform). While, subsidies that promote the sale and consumption of less healthy foods indirectly, such as sales tax exemptions for snacks and soda common in many states, should be eliminated to increase prices and reduce consumption. A tax of 1 cent an ounce on sugar-sweetened beverages—about a 10 percent price increase on a twelve-ounce can—would be likely to be the single most effective measure to reverse the obesity epidemic. Such a tax would reduce average per capita consumption by 8,000 calories annually, potentially preventing about 2.3 pounds per year of weight gain (Ounces). Policies to increase physical activity would be another way the government can help in the fight against an obese future. Two-thirds of minors these days don't get the hour of moderate to vigorous physical activity that they need every day, and quarter of them don't get it any days ever
Besides, buyers are often confused by the clashing messages with respect to fat, carbs, protein, and calories. Shoppers need clarity and dependable nutritional data to settle on proper dietary choices. Apart from just what our children eat. We must also get into the habit of exercising more often which sort of brings us to another solution that has been proposed and locally implemented. Community programs and help to increase overall health and lower obesity rates, especially in children. These programs are things like community exercising and classes. Also things like creating healthy food environments. This involves promoting locally grown produce, more awareness of healthy foods, and implementing harsher requirements for food in childcare, schools, worksites, and hospitals. There are many different types of strategies to increase physical activity in the community. These include efforts to increase the places where people can be active, such as opening school facilities to public use and creating walking trails. Some strategies may involve community design changes as …show more content…
This idea has already been successfully implemented in some European countries (Reform). While, subsidies that promote the sale and consumption of less healthy foods indirectly, such as sales tax exemptions for snacks and soda common in many states, should be eliminated to increase prices and reduce consumption. A tax of 1 cent an ounce on sugar-sweetened beverages—about a 10 percent price increase on a twelve-ounce can—would be likely to be the single most effective measure to reverse the obesity epidemic. Such a tax would reduce average per capita consumption by 8,000 calories annually, potentially preventing about 2.3 pounds per year of weight gain (Ounces). Policies to increase physical activity would be another way the government can help in the fight against an obese future. Two-thirds of minors these days don't get the hour of moderate to vigorous physical activity that they need every day, and quarter of them don't get it any days ever