Junk food is a term that describes foods that are not healthy or have little nutritional content. Junk food contains a large amount of fat. Fast food like hamburgers, fries from McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut are often regarded as junk food.
Junk food, including foods into it high content of salt, sugar, high fat and low in calories and nutrients. Salted foods, candy, chewing gum, desserts that contain sugar, fried fast food and carbonated beverages is the kind of junk that major. Generally, junk food offers a little protein, vitamins and minerals and high calories derived from sugar or fat. The term reflects a zero-calorie junk food nutrition at this.
Junk food can also be taken literally to be “junk food” or can be referred to as “useless food”. Food is used as a lifestyle behavior that arise because of globalization and modernization did not have nutritional values that are good for the health of our bodies, so called junk food is really suitable for it.
Foods that are referred to as junk-food is fast food that contain high fat levels, ie pizza, hamburgers, fried chicken, potato chips berkeju, snacks, other snacks such as buttered potatoes, until reaching the soft drinks . These foods if we over-consumption will disturb our health, such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, stroke, and so forth.
Society in this modern era that was just too much to consume junk food, and even serve as his favorite food. No wonder, too, because the ads digencarkannya through television and print media can provide a major influence in promoting this junk food.
Excessive lifestyle of consuming these foods can cause obesity which will provide a bad influence for us, especially children. One of the bad effects such as the emergence of problems in social behavior and can cultivate emotional tendencies.
The earth will be healthy again if the creation of a healthy environment and a healthy environment can be created from a healthy lifestyle as well. So we as human health will not be released to the environmental health, and vice versa.
Little by little we can try to reduce foods that are less beneficial for our bodies, began to notice the food consumed, it was expensive actually healthy, because if we are now in a state hospital, we can not do activities that are always done in our everyday .
Generally, children and adolescents are often the ones who eat junk food. An expert claimed that eating too much junk food is one of the factors that contributed to the occurrence of obesity in children. Parents usually identify most junk food such as sweets, biscuits, donuts, cereal, ice cream, soda, and fruit drinks, but too often parents do not notice it.
In addition, junk food is not only food that contains lots of sugar, but also containing high salt, high-calorie or no calorie value as containing fiber, vitamins and minerals. Also keep in mind that junk food can contain a lot of calories derived from sugar or fat. Examples of junk food, candy and snacks in addition include: hamburger meat, cheese burgers, tacos, chicken sandwiches, fries, nuggets, nachos, potato chips, pizza.
Junk Food Eating Habits relationship with Obesity
Junk food containing high salt, sugar, high fat and low in calories and nutrients. Junk food contains a lot of sodium, saturated fat, and cholesterol. If this amount is too much in the body, it will cause many diseases. In detail, junk food contains:
* More than 35% calories from fat (except for low-fat milk)
* More than 10% of calories from saturated fat
* Contains trans fats
o More than 35% calories from sugar, unless made from 100% fruit and no added sugar
o More than 200 calories per serving of food to snack
o More than 200 mg per serving for sodium (salt) for a snack.
Junk food high in sugar. Sugar, especially sugar-made, not good for health because it can lead to overweight and obesity or obesity, diabetes or diabetes, tooth decay, reduce cholesterol, which is useful, improving levels of blood fats. Foods or beverages that contain a lot of sugar, such as cakes, cookies, and carbonated beverages (soft drinks). Among all the above, most soft drinks contain a lot of sugar. At one soda cans, containing at least nine teaspoons of sugar. In fact, a day the body needs four grams or one teaspoon and can not be greater.
Combined all very “deadly”, because if consumed excess scary cause disease called diabetes, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, colon cancer, breast cancer, and even premature aging!
Not only the diseases ‘high level’ like that, ailments such as caries (cavities), cough, and obesity can infect us.