Junk foods are commonly known for their negative effects, but there are also many good benefits. Despite being hazardous to health, junk food can also provide economical benefits. Economical benefits such as helping people save time on their lunch break, save money over a long period of time, while also providing a tasty meal. Therefore, junk foods are providing positive things to people, as well as negative ones. With consumers getting more calorie conscious, most of the companies have started including detailed nutritional information with their various food products. Most of the ‘Junk’ food, list out all the nutritional information so people can become conscious of what they are eating.
Typically, fast food is low in nutrition and high in trans fat, saturated fat, sodium, and calories. Junk food seems to be faster and easiest way of food intake especially when one is busy with his work or held up in preparing food for consumption. Fast food has disorienteaded good habits of feeding. Bodies require proper diet that enhance proper building of muscles and bones and that donot cause chronic dieases that are deadly, excessive take of chips for instance leads to accumulation of fats in the body which may in turn cause blockage of body tissues. The main problems with junk food are increasing obesity, which further leads many health complications in people .
Junk foods are not good for human consumption especially when taken frequently. They make the body weak at some point due to lack of enough nutrients necessary for body immunity. Despite the fact that juices and vegetables offer some small percentage of vitamins to the body, their nutrients are not enough to strengthen the immunity of the body. Some juices include added natural sugar to make them sweet for consumption, an act which only increases calories which result in weight gain. Protein content in juices is small. An individual feels weak, exhausted and irritable since junk food only satisfies the stomach in order to avoid being hungry. Frequent take of biscuits and more so sugary stuffs leads to tooth decay. Butter contained in chocolates and yummy cookies if taken in large quantities especially in young kids and females results into obesity. Obesity is a dangerous chronic condition which if not taken care of can cause heart failure and thus death. Junk foods make teenagers lazy in the context of food preparation since they depend on readymade foods which seem to be cheaper but expensive to health matters of their bodies.
The attracting advertisements are largely responsible for the mind make up of people to consume junk food. Multinational companies are attracting the new customers (Young people, children) by attractive and aggressive marketing strategies.
The key to eating these junk foods is moderation, occasional consumption and preferably in small portions. It is not impossible to win war with junk foods against healthy foods. It’s OK to indulge a craving for French fries every now and then, but to stay healthy you can’t make it a regular habit. However, one must beware entince is so strong that you will be addicted.
So in a nutshell, advantages of junk foods seem to outdo the disadvantages, frequent use of junk foods should be fought against. Research has shown that regions with higher life expectancy observe good morals of eating. Nutritionists play a critical role in ensuring that people observe eating standards which foster good health. Human bodies are delicate in nature and need to be taken care of through modes of consumption putting in mind the kinds of food taken so as to avoid diseases. Junk foods should be taken in small amounts if needed when in hurry and not frequently in order to maintain the body size as well as good health