Unit 25 Overweight children

More and more parents are worried about their overweight children because it is a matter that needs to be dealt with carefully. According to some doctors, being overweight in childhood is very likely to lead to obesity in adulthood. This, in turn, may easily cause some modern civilization diseases like diabetes or hypertension. Therefore, parents and health officials should adopt proper measures to address this problem.

First of all, school children should be taught to eat healthily. Rather than give children junk food, parents should prepare more vegetables and fruit for their meals. Next, don’t let school children watch too much TV. Instead, they should be encouraged to exercise more. Last but not least, remind them to cut down on the daily amount of sweet beverages they drink. In a word, if such precautionary measures can be taken, the number of overweight children will be greatly reduced.