food advertisement & body image
Food advertising is promoting obesity in the younger age generation, especially in the United Arab Emirates. Having a healthy lifestyle is very complex especial that everything in the UAE that we have many new food trends, that open up very frequently and it makes the child want to try the new trends, not only that the family as well plays a role in not having a healthy lifestyle is by having unhealthy dinners not only dinners throughout the day having the nutrition they need is a must, but noways parents don’t focus on that part, what parents focus on is for their child to be happily full and relaxed.
that have the chance to eat whatever they want or order whatever they desire, noways every Arab family has a housemade that lives in their houses and whatever the kids want they get, there is never a no if there will be a no the kids start to cry and complain till the parent agrees to give what they want, we live in a generation where we are all spoiled.
How does advertisement influence the kids ?
advertisement influence the kids in many ways, the first way is by commercials as I have mentioned in my previous blogs, A commercial can, make the kids crave for that food or drink, the obesity in the Uae is the rate of 31.7% up today, as well Obesity diabetes, and other lifestyle diseases affect the majority of Emirati men under 30. And as well The Uae has ranked the highest diabetes of 4.7% .
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the world
obesity is a disease not a lifestyle disorder , why has obesity today effected the world , covid has taken over the world , in the pandemic many people where stress eating in the first year that covid had started around 39% people gained weight as we see the rise of obesity around the world kids and as well adults , but obesity is linked to many diseases like Diabetes, Hypertension, Fatty liver disease, sleep apnoea, cancer and many more.
How can you change ?
firstly is having a strict diet on your self and the most important thing is changing your habits and your lifestyle. When I started my diet I had also changed my lifestyle , without changing your lifestyle it would be very difficult to have a healthy lifestyle I had first stage of obesity I would cry my self to sleep because of hard it was counting calories , I had created my self a strict diet I would eat 800 calories per day and train so I would burn more hone I would consume in my body, I thought one day I’d faint , but I had changed my lifestyle what time I would go to sleep or what would I do in my free time , before my diet I would go out with friends have drinks and it would always end with eating fast food.
conclusion
Because all parents play an important role in raising their children, they have the capacity to improve their children’s lifestyles so that they do not have to deal with obesity, overweight, or any other ailment throughout their lives , giving the kids fewer cartoons to watch so that they would not get influenced by the food that commercial Is being played and grabbing the kids’ eyes for wanting the food for example.
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