Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Obesity in the UAE


One of the problems we have in the UAE society is obesity in many people. Many reasons make the people obese and the solutions are not found by most of them. Some of those reasons are from lifestyle or education or mistaken beliefs.
Obesity in the UAE started to appear in 1990 when fast-food restaurants started to spread. Many Emirati people like fast-food until it has become a habit and the traditional foods has become as now a type of fast-food. Also, Emiratis’ lifestyle is very easy. It is a kind and relaxing life. These method situations made a lot of people lazy and not think about doing any kind of sports. The last reason is that UAE people don’t have good knowledge about healthy food. They like to eat everything even if it has a large amount of fat or calories.
To avoid obesity there are many ideas and solutions. The government has to open new kinds of restaurants which are offering only healthy food everywhere. Also they have to make a program for anybody who is overweight by registering him in a special club. The last solution is to advertise and teach the people how to choose healthy foods.
In conclusion, there are many ways to help and protect the UAE people from obesity, but we have to try hard to protect our health first. Because the responsibility for obesity is the person himself then the society.

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