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In recent years, it is common to hear news reports about rising obesity rate and relative diseases. This issue is becoming more and more serious because it is threatening public health a great deal and as a result, is leading to falling productivity at work. I believe that the main reasons for this is due to unhealthy diet and poor working conditions in an office. In this essay, I will examine the causes of this phenomenon in detail and propose some solutions.
To begin with, one of the main causes of the problem is that people eat too much unhealthy food. This is because most of junk foods and prepared meals are cheaper and easier than cooking homemade food. Clearly, these fast foods are cheap for reasons as they are not fresh and contain fake flavours, which are mainly salt and sugar. Thus, people cgain weight and suffer from nutritional unbalance. To tackel this issue, the government should increase the tax on junk foods, but lower the price of vegetables and fruits, in order to make it more affordable for people to coo, healthy meals at home.
Furthermore, another major reason is that many people work sitting in an office for too long. In other words, they do not move very much most of the day and feel too exhausted after work to exercise. According to the research conducted by the Seoul National University, 65% of office workers did not play sports or go to a gym at all for a month in 2013. Therefore, dealing with this problem involves bringing in a law to require an office building to have a sports facility and companies to subsidise some of employees' cost to use any sports centre, which would encourage people to work out more often and easily.
To sum up, the responsibility for solving this issue mainly lies with the government. However, individuals should be more aware of the importance of healthy lifestyle and make an effort to improve their health.
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