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Junk Food
The phrase "junk food" itself speaks of
endangerment to health. Junk foods are deemed
to be trash foods as they are high in fat and sugar
components regardless of how they are labeled by
manufacturers. The apparent effect of junk food
on health administers when there is excess in
intake. Teenagers comprise the higher bulk of
junk food fanatics and they seem to be unhealthy
with such a lifestyle of munching in chips, fries,
crackers and other snack foods in front of the
television. Majority of junk food choices do not
deliver beneficial nutritional values, but you could
actually integrate a few junk foods in your diet
with an assurance that it is of moderate amount.
Regardless of age, the effect of junk food on
health settles as bad as it could be especially
when you eat too much of some. You will end
up easily getting exhausted by being a junk
food fanatic. Because it doesn't balance the
appropriate levels of energy you ought to
consume, you have tendencies of craving for
more food when you eat junk foods. Also, you
can be less focused with anything you
undertake at work and home because what you
are acquiring from junk foods are mere fats,
not healthy ingredients. Also, you will
experience lack of important oxygen that
eventually result to poor brain functioning.
In the long run, your heart cannot function as
it should because of too much cholesterol
absorbed in the body as an effect of junk food
on health. If there's too much plaque in the
arteries, your heart has to assert more effort in
pumping blood which may cause you to be in
fatigue. The excess amount of cholesterol in
your body can destroy the liver as well, leaving
you overweight at the same time. Most of
obese kids have acquired their overweight
dilemma because of too much junk food intake.
Most of those who are junk food eaters are
likely to get diabetic at any point in their life
because of high presence of sugar in the body.
High blood pressure due to great amount of
sodium from junk foods can also occur.
As they always say it, whatever is avoided
comes so tasty. Ice cream, chocolate, junk
foods, fries, burgers, potato chips and shakes
are all tempting. You can perhaps be disciplined
in indulging in these types of food because they
are initially unhealthy to have. Too much of
anything sweet or salty is health threatening.
Not only will you have a bad effect of junk food
on health, you will also largely embrace mood
swings, decreased enthusiasm to handle
workouts,
weight
gain
and
constipation
problems if you eat junk foods unstoppably. In
lieu of them, you can pick fruits and high-fiber
food for good snacks and meals.
Listed below are some important health
complications caused due to sumptuous
consumption of junk food.
• Lack of energy:
Junk foods do not contain any nutrients that
are beneficial to the human body. In most
cases, these foods are filled with harmful
carbohydrates, fats and cholesterol that do not
provide any useful energy. As a result,
somebody consuming junk food has reduced
level of essential nutrients thereby causing
weakness in the body.
• Poor Concentration:
One disadvantage of consuming junk food is
that it contains high amount of oil and fat. As a
result, human body finds this food difficult to
digest and needs to spend high amount of blood
and enzymes. When a person consumes junk
food in excess, a major portion of blood in the
body is diverted to the intestine. As a result,
the person feels drowsy and suffers with
reduced concentration.
• Heart Diseases:
Junk foods have been identified as a major
cause of heart diseases including myocardial
infraction, cardiac arrest and atherosclerosis.
This is due to the fact that junk food contains
excessive amount of low-density lipoproteins
and cholesterol that get deposited on the inner
linings of blood vessels. This result in formation
of plaques and the heart is required to put an
extra effort for pumping blood through the
arteries. Presence of fat in the blood also causes
reduced oxygen levels. Another harmful factor
present in junk foods is excess concentration of
sugars and salt. Excessive concentration of
sodium ions causes an increased heart blood
pressure.
• Liver Failure:
Even liver gets damaged due to presence of
ingredients such as fat, cholesterol and salt
inside the junk foods.
• Diabetes:
Junk foods also cause damage to the pancreas
resulting in insulin-dependant diabetes mellitus
(IDDM).
JUNK FOOD DISCUSSION
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What springs to mind when you hear the term ‘junk
food’?
How often do you eat junk food?
What is it about junk food that is so bad for us?
Do you think there should be a junk food tax to help pay
for people who go to hospital with heart and weight
problems?
Why is junk food so delicious?
Are parents who feed junk food to their children
irresponsible?
Do you think there’ll be more or less junk food in the
future?
What junk food do you really, really like?
Is the junk food from your country tastier than the junk
food from other countries?
How can you change your lifestyle to eat less junk food?
JUNK FOOD DISCUSSION
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Do lots of people eat junk food in your country?
Does your government educate people about the dangers
of junk food?
3) Do you think junk food makers are immoral and should
think more about people’s health?
4) What do you think of people who eat mostly junk food?
5) Does junk food or good quality healthy food make you
happier?
6) If you had to choose between a strict vegetarian diet
forever or a junk food diet forever, which would you
choose?
7) Why does junk food cost so much?
8) What is the definition of junk food?
9) Is chocolate the most addictive junk food?
10) Do you think people ate junk food hundreds of years
ago?