Summary of the article "Will today's children die earlier than their parents" _ Natalia Carolina Camargos Ferreira

            Summary

According to the article: "Will today's children die earlier than their parents?" , written by Laura Gray in the BBC news web magazine, bad food habits can cause changes in our life expectations and mainly in our quality of life. Some researchers are showing that, nowadays, the number of obese people is so much bigger than some years ago. To illustrate this fact, the article shows one diagram with a list of some countries and how the number of obese people has been increasing in the last 30 years. According to this diagram, the United States is the country that has had the bigger increase in the number of obese. Its percentage of population age 15-47 with BMI (body mass index) increased about 242% during the last 30 years. The article also mentions that in the United Kingdom is happening one “ national health emergency” because of the number of people suffering with Type 2 diabetes that can be caused by obesity. On the other hands, in some countries researches have been showing that people can live more in comparison with the older one because of the good treatment of diseases- heart diseases, for example- but their quality of life is shorter. The author also mentions about one paper that tells that one overweight person can get better medical care because they demonstrate the symptoms of diseases earlier than regular weight people because they go more often to doctors to watch your body due to other diseases that they have caused by the obesity.

Comments

It’s very important to choose what we eat but most of people don’t worry about this. Nowadays people prefer to eat fast food and processed food because they are a faster and cheaper alternative. However, what we eat interferes directly in our health and, how was showing in the article, in our quality and expectation of life. This way, I think people should think about this and try to eat healthier. It's also important to teach their children how to eat in a healthy way because this can causes changes in their life years later.