The Problems with Obesity Among Primary Student in Hong Kong
Introduction
The material comforts are over-rich for children nowadays. In recent decades, fast food culture is common in Hong Kong. Besides, most of the children using their free time to watch television or play computer games rather than doing some physical exercise. As a result, the problem of obesity amount the children especially primary students in Hong Kong become seriously.
Following the research which took by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, there are 4.7% of the Hong Kong children aged 5-17 were obese, using the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) . In 2004, there are 18.7% of primary students, much higher that the world’s children at the same aged (CUHK ¶1-4).
This paper will investigate the causes and effects for the problem of obesity among primary students in Hong Kong, and give some long-term effective solutes.
The Causes of Obesity
By Kwan John Kierwin Mercado
The amount of fat tissues accumulated compare with the body mass was higher than 30 % or overweight due to the energy intake is referred to obesity. The main reason of obesity is the amount exceeded the average range of body.
The main causes of obesity are too much calories intake but low general activity level (Jennifer. R. S. ¶6-11). Calories are the unit of energy, human needs energy to maintain the metabolism rate. The exercise energy will turn to fat tissues and accumulate in our body. General activity level is simply referred to exercise, high activity level means more energy can be burned; meanwhile, low activity level means burn less of energy. Therefore if we eat food contains high calories and do less exercise, we might suffer from obesity since body fat accumulated continuously.
I am worrying about the problem of childhood obesity in Hong Kong since the percentage of children (age group 6-12) who get obese has increased rapidly. These children hate doing exercise but love eating snacks, then it will make fat tissues increase from the heat of the snacks while do not
The material comforts are over-rich for children nowadays. In recent decades, fast food culture is common in Hong Kong. Besides, most of the children using their free time to watch television or play computer games rather than doing some physical exercise. As a result, the problem of obesity amount the children especially primary students in Hong Kong become seriously.
Following the research which took by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, there are 4.7% of the Hong Kong children aged 5-17 were obese, using the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) . In 2004, there are 18.7% of primary students, much higher that the world’s children at the same aged (CUHK ¶1-4).
This paper will investigate the causes and effects for the problem of obesity among primary students in Hong Kong, and give some long-term effective solutes.
The Causes of Obesity
By Kwan John Kierwin Mercado
The amount of fat tissues accumulated compare with the body mass was higher than 30 % or overweight due to the energy intake is referred to obesity. The main reason of obesity is the amount exceeded the average range of body.
The main causes of obesity are too much calories intake but low general activity level (Jennifer. R. S. ¶6-11). Calories are the unit of energy, human needs energy to maintain the metabolism rate. The exercise energy will turn to fat tissues and accumulate in our body. General activity level is simply referred to exercise, high activity level means more energy can be burned; meanwhile, low activity level means burn less of energy. Therefore if we eat food contains high calories and do less exercise, we might suffer from obesity since body fat accumulated continuously.
I am worrying about the problem of childhood obesity in Hong Kong since the percentage of children (age group 6-12) who get obese has increased rapidly. These children hate doing exercise but love eating snacks, then it will make fat tissues increase from the heat of the snacks while do not