Interview by Qiaoyi (for snow day extra point)

Interviewee: Wei Huang
Major: International Economy
Minor: Communication
Date: March 12 2013

Interviewer: Hi, Wei Huang. What is your opinion about Childhood Obesity?

Wei: Hi. Because I am a Chinese, I am more familiar with the Childhood Obesity related to Chinese. In my opinion, I think Chinese children now are getting fatter and fatter. When I was a child around seven years ago, I hardly heard from others who talked about the students' obesity. But now I always found the news about the childhood obesity in China.


Interviewer: So you mean when you were young, you and your classmates as well as many other students in China were not as fat as the students now? How come?

Wei: I think it is because our education system emphasizes on academic classes and doesn't pay enough attention to gym classes. As a result, almost every school has cut back the number of gym classes. I am not kidding. All the things I say here are from the news I heard. Apart from the unbalanced emphasis of the education system, parents should also be to blame. They don't attach importance to children's exercise.


Interviewer: You think children's parents and the education system which the schools rely on should be to blame. Apart from that, don't you think children's eating habits and the foods are also responsible?

Wei: Yes. I think you are right. But in China, I don't think these two factors are the main factors.

Interviewer: What do you think of Childhood Obesity here?

Wei: It is definitely a sharp problem here. We can tell from our daily life that many children, teenagers and college students are really fat. They give us the signal that we should not ignore Childhood Obesity.

Interviewer: You do get Childhood Obesity very well. Here is my last question. What do you think we can do for solving this problem?

Wei: Well. Definitely, the education system should have some related polices which schools can rely on and get some related ideas from. Also, the schools should make a suitable plan for students' foods. Parents also need to pay attention to children's eating and exercise. Those are what I can come up with.

Interviewer: Thank you!

My reflection:
Wei and I are good friends and both from China. Because of her minor, I think she must have something to tell me about the Childhood Obesity. However, I find maybe it is because we have the same culture background, our thoughts of this topic can be summarized in the same ways. What she thinks are almost what I think. However, on the other hand, I know that Childhood Obesity is a really serious issue.
I just heard from newspapers that New York City has forbidden banned on sugary drinks bigger than 16 ounces in restaurants for preventing people from getting fatter. I think this can contribute to solving Childhood Obesity.