Junk Foods and its Effects

The craze of junk food has got widened and people have started eating burger, pizzas, noodles for the sake of party and enjoyment, blindly. Instead of giving a chance to healthier and balanced food, they prefer to choose short cut of eating junk food, which are faster to cook or order.

Today’s generation has vastly dependent on junk food for filling up their stomach. Today’s hectic life, long hours in office, insufficient time for cooking has also increased the consumption of these ready to eat food. These food do not take much time for cooking and are ready to eat in a moment. Junk food may sound tasty but  good for health in a long run.


Junk foods like burgar, Pizza, Chawmin etc. have mainly maida in them which sticks in the body and is difficult to digest. It gets on accumulated in the body and causes fatness. They only make your stomach fuller but do not provide enough energy. They even contain raw vegetables like cabbage, capsicum, beans which are not properly washed and even carry insects and bacteria in them. They can cause diseases and not good for health.


Junk food dependency
Balanced diet plays an important role in a child's early years for growth. The way you feed, decides their physical power. If the child is given junk food like pizza, buger, noodles etc. then, that could fill the stomach only not fulfill the need of nutrients requirement.
Junk food is rich in high sugar content and calories. They make kids dependent on them as they become habitual to its taste once have. The junk food does not provide higher nutrients which are needed for proper growth of kids. This tends to eating more and developing serious diseases that could lead due to less nutrients intake and unhealthy lifestyle

Junk food and arteries
The junk food are of no good for kids and grown up folks. Peopl believe that they will do exercise or extra walking to kill those extra calories, but sadly this is not the truth. The damaged cause to the arteries begins the very first day. Poor arteries can affect heart and brain functioning if not taken care of on time.

If one eats rich balanced diet, then his brain and body will function good and think in a positive manner. On the other hand, junk foods adds depression and dependency on to them. When we eat junk food then do not look at the healthier option which make us vitamins and fibre deficient.
Moreover the junk food is highly rich in sugar that causes fluctuations in our body sugar levels. Resulting in prolonged sleeping hours, irritation, lethargic nature etc.


Obesity and Heart Disorders
Since, junk food has high sugar level and good in taste so once a person begins eating this, he will go on eating more and more. The high cholestrol and sugar level in it makes a person more obese and gives invitation to heart diseases.