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2018.11.11, Independent Writing

Governments have done enough job to educate people about the
importance of nutrition and healthy eating.

Nutritious diet, the foundation of a healthy body, has been valued and

even triggers a heated discussion over whether the government have done

enough work to educate people about healthy eating. Some people

believe that lots of efforts made by governments have been put into

helping people learn nutrition and eating. However, my view is that there

are much more responsibilities that governments are supposed to take on.

What must be prioritized is that knowledge support in healthy diet are

inadequate in both social courses and formal education system, leaving

parents and children unaware of the significance of healthy eating.

Initially, courses concerning nutrition knowledge are rarely opened to

public. In detail, without access to courses that instruct them to choose

healthy food, people may stick to unhealthy eating habits, which may be

passed on to their next generations by providing their children with

unhealthy food; on contrast, if governments have offered more non-profit

diet courses for all social members, such trend can be prevented and

healthier eating habits in families would be valued. Besides, it is in school

that children can have deeper understanding and training in health

knowledge that can help them discern healthy diet, while most schools do

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not have extra money to teach lessons on healthy eating; how could these

schools afford better courses and more teachers in nutrition field if

governments are stingy about their financial aids for fundamental

education system?

What is equally worth discussion is that governments could be more

influential in regulating the food market and have a sway on people’s

eating choice by multiple methods. To begin with, there is few laws that

limit the expansion of unhealthy food market. To be more specific,

governments can charge higher taxes in industries and restaurants that

serve high calorie or high sugar food, increasing the price of these

products to some extent so people can turn to healthier food for lower

price. However, the only existing example is sugar tax in Norway, which

successfully change Norwegians’ cognitions about healthy eating; while

in other parts of the world, such amendments in food tax are still in

debates. Moreover, not only can governments make compulsory tax

standards, but also regulate the media to reduce misleading eating

concepts. For instance, advertisements and publicities, which overstate

the nutrition value of fast food, should be punished for conveying wrong

information to the public; but in reality, governments are reluctant to

launch these regulations for their fear of overwhelming workload.

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To conclude, improving education system and guiding social values by

regulations are necessary solutions to educate people about the

importance of nutrition and healthy eating, which is apparently

overlooked by governments. As a result, there is much more things

governments can do to live up to social expectations.

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