Sports and health

Not many people are really aware of what they eat and the exercise they do. That is a big mistake, as an unhealthy diet and lack of exercise may result in health problems (as obesity, which is a world problem). That can be prevented by only being conscious of your situation. Moreover, aesthetically, being fit depends largely on what you eat and the amount of exercise you do.

An alternative as a possible solution for this problem might be the promotion of sports and a healthy lifestyle through advertising in the media, mainly television and social networks, which have most users/consumers. This option may have a good outcome, as it will be widespread due to the great number of consumers media has. A drawback of this option can be the high cost of TV advertisement.

Otherwise, the ultimate solution may be in education: children can be taught the importance of a healthy lifestyle. If it is done successfully, those children will implement this knowledge all their lives. This strategy has its weak point, and that is that it takes a long time to put in practice, added to the fact that not all children have access to education.

To conclude, both solutions are necessary, as kids need to be well-educated about this theme and sports and a healthy lifestyle need to be widespread to people that were not educated. In my opinion, the option of education will be the better in the long term, as if kids are aware of this since a young age, they will take care for ever.

Cars in big cities

Cars can be very nocive for human life and, especially, for the environment, as they generate pollution (air, noise and visual) because of the fumes they produce and the noises they make. Moreover, traffic jams pollute visually and can cause inconveniences to people who may have to arrive somewhere. The effect cars make is worse in big cities, where you have to add the huge buildings, factories and overcrowding. Therefore, it is important to reduce the number of cars.

There can be possible solutions and measures governments could take to reduce the amount of cars in cities using taxes as a method. One of them may be making businesses pay for their employees’ parking, so they will look for a new place to relocate. Otherwise, they could try making enterprises or businesses pay a tax for each employee who goes to work with its own car, which may make the business adopt a policy of asking their employees to come to work by other means.

In exchange, governments could try to take measures by using education as a method. One possible solution is teaching people how better pedestrianized city centres work, so as people would prefer going to work on foot. Moreover, governments may make people conscious of the impacts cars have towards the environment, which may change people’s minds about using cars.

In conclusion, I think that the solutions using taxes as a method could be more efficient and easier to put in practice, as the government would only depend on itself for implementing them (in the ones with education they would also depend on the people learning).