Blogs Posts in Junk Food category; 108 blog posts

Junk foods still plentiful at elementary schools

CHICAGO — Junk food remains plentiful at the nation's elementary schools despite widespread efforts to curb childhood obesity, a new study suggests. Between 2006 and 2010, nearly half of public and private schools surveyed sold [...]

Posted On : Feb, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

Junk Foods versus Healthy Foods

Junk Foods versus Healthy Foods

Junk foods are those food materials which are perceived to be having none or very little nutritional value when consumed. As it has been revealed, junk foods' ingredients are incapable of sustaining healthy body; which renders them so [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Time to tax junk food

Researchers in the United States have drafted a radical proposal: seizing severely obese children from their parents for the good of the child. The idea isn't likely to win much official support, but it is founded on a painful fact [...]

Posted On : Jul, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Junk Foods versus Healthy Foods

  Junk foods are those food materials which are perceived to be having none or very little nutritional value when consumed. As it has been revealed, junk foods' ingredients are incapable of sustaining healthy body; which render [...]

Posted On : Jul, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Why Junk Food Is Bad For You

For millions of adults and children junk food and increased inactivity has led to obesity. For some people junk food has become a way of life, they are addicted to it and if everyone in your family for example eats junk food then it is ve [...]

Posted On : Jul, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Junkfood Cinema: Kiss of the Dragon

Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema, the weekly feature with that certain je ne sais quoi. No, wait, je sais afterall! That quoi is the nostril singing aroma of fried foods and stale Funyuns. If that’s what you smell too, then you&rsquo [...]

Posted On : May, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Junk Food Junkie

Junk Food Junkie

Emilie Baltz, author and photographer of the recently-released Junk Foodie: 51 Delicious Recipes for the Lowbrow Gourmand, was born to a French mother and an American father, who opened her eyes to cultural differences in the way we eat, [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Marketing Junk Food to Our Kids: Can We Beat It?

Marketing Junk Food to Our Kids: Can We Beat It?

The report Fast Food Facts, by researchers at the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, quotes numerous scary statistics on the relentless marketing of fast food. The list of facts demonstrating the marketing of fast food to chil [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Professor's Weight Loss Secret: Junk Food

Little Debbie Snacks, Oreos, Doritos and Diet Mountain Dew sure don't sound like diet food. But a nutrition professor at Kansas State University ate only convenience store snacks for two months and lost 27 pounds. The key? Moder [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Junk-food diet proves fat success

Junk-food diet proves fat success

An American professor of nutrition has undergone a 10-week diet of biscuits, cakes and other high-sugar, fat-laden junk food and has lived to tell a tale of weight loss, deeper sleep and better general health. Mark Haub, associate profes [...]

Posted On : Nov, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Push for junk food tax gains weight

Push for junk food tax gains weight

MORE public health experts have joined the call for a tax on junk food, saying the existing focus on "individual behaviour change" will do little to curb surging rates of obesity. Ms Holly Bond, PhD candidate at the Michae [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Students told to avoid junk food

Srinath Joshi, assistance commissioner of police (south), has called upon the youth to avoid junk food to stay healthy. Speaking after inaugurating Annual Sports Meet 2010-11 at PC Jabin Science College here on Tuesday, he said doing exe [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Eating junk food as addictive as drugs

Eating junk food as addictive as drugs

A British study suggests that a diet of burgers, chips and cake programmes your brain to crave even more for foods that are high in sugar, salt and fat content - just like drugs. Over the years, junk food can become a substitute for happ [...]

Posted On : Oct, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Junk food codes fail, says doctor

A LEADING nutritionist paid to assess complaints about food ads has broken ranks with the industry, charging that self-regulatory codes aimed at curbing junk food marketing to children are fundamentally flawed. Bruce Neal of the Geo [...]

Posted On : Sep, 10 2010 | Comments : 0
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