essay on hazards of junk food
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The Nutritious Deficiency
Although junk food satisfies your hunger, it provides little nutrition. But the continuous dependency on nutrient-poor foods can leave you with too little appetite for more nutritious foods, increasing your risk of nutritional deficiencies. The average American diet is deficient in fiber, omega-3 fats, magnesium, and calcium, writes Dr. Steven Masley on ClinicalAdvisor.com. Highly processed foods contain little fiber, a substance your body needs for a healthy gastrointestinal tract and for control of cholesterol and blood sugar levels. Vegetables, fruits, and whole grains are the main sources of fiber, as well as many other essential nutrients.
The Weight Gain
Natural whole foods like vegetables, whole grain products contain fewer calories by volume than junk foods. For example, a 100 g serving of plain baked potato provides 93 calories compared to 292 calories in 100 g of restaurant french fries. By eating 500 calories a day more than you need, you’ll gain about a pound each week. As the fast foods are so high in calories, frequenting fast food restaurants increases your risk of unhealthy weight gain.
The Heart Problems
Your body needs some fat for health, but junk food provides primarily fats that harm your health. These man-made, processed fats are common in commercial baked goods. Processed, packaged foods are often high in salt, or sodium. Excess sodium in your diet can increase your risk of high blood pressure and hence it leads to several heart problems.
Insulin Resistance
A diet that provides large amounts of processed carbohydrates like those in candy, commercial baked goods, and potato chips promotes the insulin resistance. In insulin resistance, some cells no longer respond to insulin, which leads to high blood sugar, increasing the risk of diabetes.
Conclusion
No one should consume the junk food beyond limits as this may cause very bad consequences to the health. It can be consumed once in a while like on any occasion. The parents should take care it that the children could not consume much junk food. More the distance from junk foods, more the healthy and happy life.
Although junk food satisfies your hunger, it provides little nutrition. But the continuous dependency on nutrient-poor foods can leave you with too little appetite for more nutritious foods, increasing your risk of nutritional deficiencies. The average American diet is deficient in fiber, omega-3 fats, magnesium, and calcium, writes Dr. Steven Masley on ClinicalAdvisor.com. Highly processed foods contain little fiber, a substance your body needs for a healthy gastrointestinal tract and for control of cholesterol and blood sugar levels. Vegetables, fruits, and whole grains are the main sources of fiber, as well as many other essential nutrients.
The Weight Gain
Natural whole foods like vegetables, whole grain products contain fewer calories by volume than junk foods. For example, a 100 g serving of plain baked potato provides 93 calories compared to 292 calories in 100 g of restaurant french fries. By eating 500 calories a day more than you need, you’ll gain about a pound each week. As the fast foods are so high in calories, frequenting fast food restaurants increases your risk of unhealthy weight gain.
The Heart Problems
Your body needs some fat for health, but junk food provides primarily fats that harm your health. These man-made, processed fats are common in commercial baked goods. Processed, packaged foods are often high in salt, or sodium. Excess sodium in your diet can increase your risk of high blood pressure and hence it leads to several heart problems.
Insulin Resistance
A diet that provides large amounts of processed carbohydrates like those in candy, commercial baked goods, and potato chips promotes the insulin resistance. In insulin resistance, some cells no longer respond to insulin, which leads to high blood sugar, increasing the risk of diabetes.
Conclusion
No one should consume the junk food beyond limits as this may cause very bad consequences to the health. It can be consumed once in a while like on any occasion. The parents should take care it that the children could not consume much junk food. More the distance from junk foods, more the healthy and happy life.
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Fast food is nowadays very popular among teenagers. But, is it healthy to eat ? Of course not. The fast food is not good for our health. In this modern generation people are addictive to it very much.
Let's see some of the advantages and disadvantages of fast food :
☛ Advantages ;
▪️The production of fast food is a livelihood for many of the people.
▪️The factories producing fast food creates employment for people.
▪️The people who have less time, is helpful in time consumption.
☛ Disadvantages ;
▪️The fast food is not good for our health.
▪️It causes may ill effects such as diabetes, obesity, etc.
▪️It contains a lot of fat products, which is harmful for us.
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