JUNK FOOD ---- How does it affect our life??
Increase in Junk food
Today’s generation is all about the faster way of things. Eating junk
food for adults and teens is all the more common and for children it is
felt like a daily need.
Junk food is very injurious to health as eating fatty foods increases the
cholesterol in our body
Soft drinks are also becoming a trend in our society nowadays but many people fail to remember that drinking soft drinks adds dangerous toxins in the human body, which can effect you bones, skin and even kidneys in a very bad manner. In addition drinking
soft drinks can also cause teeth decay and obesity.
Eating junk food also decreases the bodies’ immune system which is why new
generations of children are getting lazier and lazier. Due to the excessive eating of junk food every fourth child on Earth
is over weight.
Thus junk food should not be eaten as a source of food or as a solution to hunger. You
should always prefer healthy home made foods which are much more better than these dangerous foods.
Ofcourse you can consume junk food once in awhile but keeping in mind that junk food is a very minute portion of the noutrishment your body needs..
Some of the effects.
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• Lack of energy:
As junk food has no real nutrition, even though it is very sufficient you feel weakened. And it has the effect of leaving you feeling lethargic and weak.
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• Poor concentration:
When you have a sumptuous junk meal rich in oil you feel drowsy and fail to concentrate. The blood circulation drops due to the fat accumulation. Lack of vital oxygen, nutrients and proteins particularly can stale your grey (brain) cells temporarily.
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• Heart Diseases:
Junk food diet is a major cause of heart diseases. Myocardial infarction is a sever heart failure which is due to plaque formation in the arteries which demands the heart to put in extra effort to pump blood, on the up stream there is a lack of returning blood to the heart. This causes two damages to heart - heart fatigues by the continuous extra effort it makes and it suffers oxygen supply.
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• High Cholesterol
Apart from the effects of plaques and constricting arteries, cholesterol also effects the liver where it metabolized. High cholesterol due to the consumption of junk food and diet strains the liver eventually damaging it.