Lifestyle Choices

• Lifestyle Choices

  Lifestyle Choices are a considerable cause of health inequalities.

  Obesity rates continuously climbing in the UK due to many factors - such as a shift in food culture to fast food - there has also been a rise in the serious health conditions linked with being overweight - diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease

  -> health inequality as the choice of poor diet and lack of exercise often leads to significant health implications, placing increased burden on health care system.
• Lifestyle Choices - EXAMPLE & ANALYSIS

  In 2023, more than one million people in the UK were admitted to hospital for illness related to obesity

  This shows that lifestyle choices are having a significant effect on healthcare services, creating a gap in the amount of attention given to patients and increasing health issues across the UK.
• Lifestyle Choices - REBUTTAL

  Scottish Government have put large amounts of funding into preventing childhood obesity

  Funding programs across Scotland aimed at tackling the issue - such as 'little n lively' in Lanarkshire.

  Reducing obesity by intercepting the issue at its root, causing families and children to make healthy choices.
• Lifestyle Choices - REBUTTAL (EXAMPLE & ANALYSIS)

  Decrease in sugary drink consumption by 20% from 2016-2018.

  This shows the positive effects of the funding and programs set up through the government.
• Lifestyle Choices - EVALUATION

  There are increasingly changed attitudes to poor diet, weakening it as a cause of health inequality.