What you can expect more or else than this–deep fried foods, pastries, and soft drinks will be banned from West Australian public schools, which makes a part of the State Government’s fight against the much talked-about and much-feared obesity epidemic that has snared over the children of almost the whole world. 

Premier Alan Carpenter, while launching the new nutritional guidelines for school canteens, has also stated that the students from year 1-10 will also need to take part in at least two hours of physical activity per week during school time–though at this point, we don’t know how these two hours will be drafted from the school timings or whether they will be given extra.

What has propelled such a prompt and strict action on the part of the government, as we can expect that children will not be very happy from this decision? –the reason is an ongoing study, which involves the University of Western Australia, and it shows that 1 in 5 primary school children in Western Australia are overweight or obese. It has also been noticed that the children aging 6 years are having problems like diabetes, high blood pressure, and liver problems–problems directly related to obesity.

It is clear that the government is really concerned about the health of the kids that are of course the future of the country–the plans that they have chalked to tackle the problem is a very good one, and is perhaps the most basic one: children grow what they eat. It is one of the famous adage sort of line that health specialists say. Children will surely not like to get this news–but, we as elders, would need to make them understand that this is for their own good–control on diet and life-style can really solve the problem of obesity, which is very difficult to solve at the later stage of life.