Junk Food Facts

      

                       Junk food refers to fast foods which are easy to make and easy to consume. They are zero in nutritional value . A quick look at junk food facts tells us junk food and diet does not go hand in hand. 

They have only fats lying in it causing ill effects on the health of the consumer. The taste is the most attractive feature in junk foods. But is there at least little use of junk food to our body and health.

Why Junk Food And Diet Is So Appealing?

• The Time Factor:

             Junk food addiction is so high because of its simplicity. They are easy to prepare and are very tasty. Junk foods such as potato wafers and Cheetos do not even need cooking or heating. You prefer to eat them when you watch TV. You save yourself a lot of hassles and time when you are in a hurry eating pizzas and burgers as they are served at your door step hot and ready to eat.

• The Taste Factor:

If time constraint is one reason that pushes you to eating junk food, great taste also, to an extent influences you to opt for junk food. But junk foods get their taste owing to lavish usage of oils, salts and/or sugar. 

     Once you are caught in junk food addiction, you find it hard to think about the loss of nutrition junk food pushes you into.

                      Nothing can be as satisfying and enjoying as eating junk food. Is it not? But the truth is that junk food is tempting but harmful to the health at the same time, it creeps into ones body as a silent killer and then spreads the disease as fast as a hurricane. 

• Here are some junk food facts that help you understand the harmful effects of eating them. Some of them are long term while others are short-term effects.

§  Lack of energy :

This is known as a short-term adverse effect resulting from eating junk foods. As junk foods don't provide you with essential nutrients, even though they can be very much sufficing, you feel weakened. Consuming deficient nutrients could be as a supplement.

§  Poor concentration: 

This is another result of junk food habit. When you have a sumptuous junk meal rich in oil you feel drowsy and fail to concentrate. Over sustained periods of junk food eating, blood circulation drops due to fat accumulation. Lack of vital oxygen, nutrients and proteins particularly can stale your grey (brain) cells temporarily.

§  Heart Diseases:
Junk food diet is a major cause of heart diseases. Myocardial infarction (a sever heart failure) is due to plaque formation in arteries which demands heart to put in extra effort to pump blood on the down stream. On the up stream, there is lack of returning blood to heart. This causes two damages to heart - heart fatigues by the continuous extra effort it makes and it suffers oxygen supply. The onset and remedy both take a long time and a great determination to win.

§  High Cholesterol : 
Apart from forming plaques and constricting arteries, cholesterol also affects liver where it is metabolized. High cholesterol from junk food and diet strains liver damaging it eventually. This is a long term effect.

 §  How to Avoid Junk Food :

     Clever junk food advertising and the lure of convenience in addition to taste get people to junk food addiction. Awareness on junk food facts is lacking dramatically in every corner of the society.

        Develop awareness for fitness. Keeping good food nearby and having meals right on time may help to keep away junk food .

        However, beware; the lure is strong enough to get you addicted. It is in your hands choose junk food or health.