Diet plans for millions of families

Trisha Butterworth
Jan. 30th

In the UK, around seven million families will receive a survey about their children’s health. The survey is going to asses a child’s lifestyle and whether or not they are obese. Another 4 million surveys about a child’s health will be sent out to schools, offices, and magazines. The overall idea is to asses their lifestyles and then give them personal training and diet plans to help. They say that by 2050, 9 out of 10 children will be obese if the lifestyles are kept the same as they are now. The plans for each of the families will total to about 35 million pounds. A public health minister believes it will help families see the problem and get them into a new lifestyle with a new diet to help stop over weight problems. Others although say that this is not going to work, that the questionnaires will not be filled out properly and that they advice will do nothing.
I believe that UK is on the right track, trying to figure out something to stop obesity. Overweight children are becoming a more prevalent problem and it needs to be stopped. Who knows what the right answer is, but something has got to be done. Healthy diets need to be enforced and made more available to families so that they can create a healthy lifestyle for the whole family. I am not sure if a questionnaire is going to work because of how people react to things, but I do feel that it is the parents’ problem, and that something needs to be done. A huge problem for most people is that healthy foods are too expensive, resulting in families not being able to buy them. Also, with the availability of fattening fast foods and how cheap they are, its no wonder why children are over weight.