Fast foods are all junk foods. Word “Junk” represents its meaning, rubbish. Normally “Junk food” is a term for the foods that can be made faster then cooked food using already prepared ingredients stuffed with calories and fats. They are not healthy at all.
Why do people prefer Junk food than cooked food? Junk foods are close to us; two minutes away from our house. Many junk food stores are located everywhere. They are right there if needed. “Sometimes she'll look out her back window, past the Kroger store, and realize that McDonald's, Burger King and Taco Bell are right there on the horizon, only two minutes away. Moreover, McDonald's is a lot easier than anything, you get it, you're done. And it's tasty; it's got that tasty taste. You have stress in life, and food is the one thing they can't take from you."
(Works Cited - Leahy, Michael. "The Weight; Like Millions of Americans, Deke Baskins Love Affair with Food has Come at a Severe Cost. at nearly 300 Pounds, He is Diabetic, Needs an Oxygen Mas9k and a Motorized Scooter. His Daughter Weighs Even More. what Will it Take for them -- for Us -- to Break Free of our Overeating Obsession?" The Washington Post: W.14. Northeastern Newspapers; U.S. National Newspapers. Jul 18 2004. Web. 7 Feb. 2012 .)
This quote shows how Junk foods are easy to get, purchase and eat. Since Junk foods have that easy-to-buy characteristic, at least one quarter of American adults eat junk food everyday. American teenagers drink an average of 760 cans of soda pop and 500 cans of soft drinks per year. Almost 20% of children fewer than 2 years of age are given soft drinks everyday in America. Mostly children likes the junk foods because they usually taste nicer and better than any other healthy foods. (http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-204_162-326858.html)
One effective reason why people cannot even try not to buy or eat junk foods is their strong and arousing advertisements of the products. According to the cbsnews, junk food industry and companies spends over $33 billion per year in the US alone to advertise junk food products. Also the majority of food advertising is for sweetened cereals, soft drinks, candy, processed snacks and
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McDonalds’. The average American child sees 20,000 ads a year for junk good. As a result, Over 90% of American children eat at McDonalds’ at least once per month. There, Even the numbers are getting higher day by day. We can conjecture the growing gravity of junk foods from those rates. Nowadays every person on earth eats junk foods frequently.
Since junk foods are rich in calories, sugars and fat, people get fat from eating them and eventually obesity occurs. Obesity is one of the most dangerous disease/causes that can be lead to death and in America; they have the world’s highest number of people dies from obesity. (Obesity is second only to smoking as a cause of death in America. )Obesity related diseases cost the United States an estimated 150 billion dollars each year according to U.S. federal agencies. The average person today consumes more sugar in two weeks than a person a century ago would have eaten in a whole year. According to the cbsnews, with obesity in children increasing three-fold over the past 2 decades, 46% of Canadian adults are either overweight or obese. Scientists figured out that obese people have twice the rate of chronic health problems which are the problems occurring in disease or other human health condition that is persistent or long lasting in natureas, people of normal weight. This includes a 100% greater chance of developing Type 2 diabetes, 50% increased likelihood of developing heart disease. Obese men are nearly 90% more likely to get colon cancer. A scientist had an experiment with rats to see how do rats react when they were fed healthy and unhealthy meals. Rats that were fed healthy meals and were given unlimited access to high-calorie food developed a preference for the high-calorie food, and they munched on it all day and quickly became obese. Another group of rats that had unlimited access to high- calorie food were shown the light and they did not respond to the potential danger. Instead they continued to eat their snacks. The guy who experimented those said what we are seeing in our animals is very similar to what we had see in humans who overeat. Also he concluded that it seemed that it was okay, from what we could tell, to enjoy snack foods, but if you repeatedly overindulge, that’s where the problem comes in.
Other big characteristic of junk food that blocks your eyes from being healthy is addiction. Once you eat junk food, they bring the same reaction to your brain as drugs like cocaine heroin. They make your brain desensitized and require more junk foods to get more pleasure. This is why obesity occurs. People cannot bear themselves from not eating junk foods but since obesity works the same as the drugs; their brains do not forget the tastes. In addition, junk foods are that harmful that eating junk food during pregnancy results later the child’s unhealthy habit. Junk foods still have negative impacts except some above. Junk food diet is a major cause of heart diseases. Junk foods’ fats go into the vein and block it. Therefore, the heart gets not enough amount of blood and there, heart diseases occur. Also high cholesterol in junk food puts excessive damage on the liver, causing long-term damage to this essential organ that human cannot live without. Research shows that foods with high fats may also harm essential brain functions, like concentration and memory. They disturb the normal brainwork. According to cbsnews, they increase risks in increased rates of bone fracture, for osteoporosis which is a disease of bones that leads to an increased risk of fracture ,weight gain and obesity ,for Type II Diabetes which is a disease in which there are high levels of sugar in the blood, kidney stones, tooth decay and other dental problems. (http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-204_162-326858.html) .
The well-known pizza company, Domino’s has 507 calories, 17.7g of fat and 59.4g of carbs per serving (one pizza). But Pizza express, the other pizza company, has more calories than Domino’s but why Pizza express is not considered as a junk food company. The huge junk food company, McDonald contains 640 calories and 18g of fat in a hamburger and strawberry milkshake. McDonald, the most famous and archetypal junk food company in the world has lesser calories than ED’s diner does. But ED’s diner is not considered as Junk Food Company. Why? Because ED’s diner has more value in healthy nutrition than McDonald’s that sometimes doesn’t even provide the nutrition value chart to people. Since they have no value on other nutrients other than fat, sugar and calories, they do not even show the nutrition charts to people. Even junk foods are made with chemicals, not even a food. “Artificial ingredients can contain an alarming variety of chemicals. For instance, ‘artificial strawberry flavors can contain about 50 chemicals, no strawberries at all.” Junk food companies should be caring people with their food not only thinking how they can get more money.( http://www.arfworldcongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Get-Some-Fast-Food-Nutrition-Facts1.jpg)
People do not even try to make foods because junks food are always faster, cheaper, timesaver and easier to get. Even moms do not try to cook, even though they know what is right and what is wrong in food choices. They just give junk foods to their children. Then ultimately children learns and gets familiar with that bad food habits and wont be able to get rid of that even when they get older. It's important that people know what they are eating and especially to know what their children are eating. People form their eating habits as children. For example, parents think that chicken meals are healthier than burgers, but since they are fried, they are not healthy.
Junk food, which was born as the world goes rapidly day-by-day and emphasizes on speed, has many bad impacts on human nature. They are being issued as a drug, addictive characteristic and fatal effects on human body. The problem is many people already know these consequences after eating junk foods but they cannot bear them at all. People know the fact that junks foods are dreadful on human body but they do not take it seriously. Producers who actually make junk foods think that it will be okay with complacent thoughts and do not take it seriously either. It's very important that the fast food companies make sure that their fast food meals are healthy. Consumer who purchases junk food and producer of junk food should make a believable, trustable food culture together. There is nothing more important than foods in human living life.
