Should Obesity Be Compulsory In Australia Essay

I believe that compulsory PE in school’s to the Year 10 level will decrease obesity rates because as a society school children are eating far too much junk food and sitting on the lounge playing video games for hours and doing little or no exercise at home. So without exercise at school and having a bad diet and playing video games for hours will not decrease obesity rates. We need to educate our kids at school that by healthy eating and exercising for just an hour each day will help keep them fit and not become another statistic of obesity. Fast food is a major factor affecting our obesity rates because statistics show that Australia will be spending more than $37 billion in fast food outlets alone in 2014. This works out to every man, woman and child buying 343 burgers each making Australia the 11th biggest nation spending money on fast food. So with these statistics it works out that the average Australian would have fast food four times a month. The Enhanced Media Metrics Australia

An example is back in 1976 the Government decided to place a total ban on smoking advertisements on the TV and radio and in 1992 they stopped tobacco companies sponsorship sporting events. By 2013 cigarette packets were starting to show ugly pictures of what smoking can do to your body as well as commercials on TV. Since then by the Government stepping in with their campaigns this has shown that the amount of smokers has decreased by a quarter. So with advertising and large labelling on food packets this will make children aware of childhood obesity which will lead to high cholesterol, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and apnea. The long term effects are stroke and heart disease and early death. With these bad effects this is why compulsary PE to the year 10 level will decrease obesity