A recent report, Child's Obesity Strategy, was published by Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), the Youth Health Movement, and Slimming World. This report was formulated based on a workshop and a survey about obesity. Initially, this workshop was conducted with 19 young adults between the age of 13 and 19. However, the ideas about how to deal with obesity issue was taken from this workshop and applied to survey of 570 school children and over 2,000 adults.
According to the survey results, 49% young adults said that the fast food takeaways are the biggest culprits of childhood obesity. A quarter of these people ordered fast food at their school and more than half of them used their smartphones to place the order. Based on this report, RSPH recommended that to ban fast food deliveries in school is a step that is supported by parents as well as children.
"At my school we have several unhealthy takeaways within a few minutes' walk, a shop round the corner selling sweets, crisps and fizzy drinks and kids selling unhealthy food out of their school bags at break times," said Thomas Munnelly, 16, who contributed to the report on obesity.
"This report gives a uniquely young person's perspective on what steps can and should be taken, and while there is no silver bullet, young people are very clear what they think the causes of obesity are, and what action they would like to see from government and industry in particular," RSPH Chief Executive Shirley Cramer was quoted as saying.
This is the first time that a report of this kind was used to take opinions of young adults regarding the issue of obesity.
