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Top guidelines for Childhood Obesity- Its symptoms and Causes

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Top guidelines for Childhood Obesity- Its symptoms and Causes   Public health is an important topic that is often neglected by citizens and politicians. We rely on government officials to find cures and solutions to our health problems, but we cannot see the source of these problems.  If we want to change public health, we need to look at the root of the problem and focus more on primary prevention rather than tertiary prevention.  Since most of our public health problems are preventable diseases, we must eliminate the causes to prevent them. Childhood obesity is on the rise and we are doing nothing. Of course, there are many efforts to reduce childhood obesity rates, but these efforts focus on secondary and tertiary prevention.  We focus too much on reversing the effects of obesity and not enough time on preventing obesity in the first place. If we educate our community about the health risks of obesity, we can teach them how to prevent it. We should target parents,...