Question

How can we improve or solve problems related to obesity (within a society) ?

Answer 1

Obesity is becoming a common problem worldwide because of our changing lifestyle. These days people follow a sedentary lifestyle and they depend on high calorie and high fat fast food.These inturn results in obesity and other resultant health related problems.Inorder to solve problems of obesity in a society ,there should be a well planned public health plan focussing on educating the people about ill effects of obesity.There should some challenges like weight loss challenge, and activity challenge and there should be sufficient advertisement for the same on different media. People should be encouraged to cut down calorie and fat and increase their intake of vegetables, whole grains, nuts and legumes, use vegetable oils instead of animal fat. They should be encouraged to increase physical activities, like use stairs instead of escalators,walking to work rather than riding etc.There should be awareness programmes regarding consequences of obesity. Weight reduction strategy is to be implemented and monitored thoroughly. In this way we can tackle obesity.