Eating Your Self To Death
September 12, 2007 |20:42 | Junk Food By : Kaneta Babar
Eating Your Self to Death:
Eating an abundance of junk seems normal to today’s generation. Many parents feed their children a large amount of sugary food causing them to become extremely hyperactive. They then take their kids to doctors whose solution is to simply prescribe medication to control their behavior-merely treating the effect not the cause these parents are not aware that a change in diet would rectify the situation. Eating junk food is also one of the main contributing factors to the development of cancer. The body desires and needs certain vitamins and minerals to function properly but when you eat a poor diet, you severely impair the body’s ability –its immune system-to fight of toxins and diseased cells. As a result these cells can become cancerous, another devastating effect of junk food is the obesity epidemic eating a regular diet of junk food makes one quickly gain weight. Currently 31% of adults and 17% of kids are obese in America.
Reasons behind Popularity of Junk Food:
(1) Convenience: People often choose to eat junk food because it is convenient, society is so fast paced that it leaves no time to cook a well prepared and nutritious meal.
(2) Advertisements: Junk food marketers advertise through any end every means possible including Television commercials, loud radio spots, Internet pop-up ads, and even through vending machines.
(3) Lack of Discipline: Weak parents trying to be more like friends then parents give in to their children’s whim-and they feed their children’s taste buds instead of their bodies. What they do not realize is that they are doing their children a great disservice; they are sowing the seeds of addiction to junk food which left unchecked could result in their untimely death.
1 Comments
Luke
September 20, 2007 |00:29
People are able to eat whatever they want. Im not obese and i choose to eat a mix between fast food and other stuff. I believe in the life style. Happy not healthy. If being healthy makes you happy then just go for it.
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