Junk food is identical with fast food. Junk food has its popularity in the 1940’s.
Within a few years, fast-food operations popped up everywhere. With the
compelling rise in fast-food restaurants since the 1940’s, oddly it started the
rise in obesity and cancer during that same time period.
This type of food is generally consumed by urban residents who have limited
time so that they choose to consume this food that does not need to wait for a
long time to eat. Junk food is kind of food that is not advisable to be
consumed too often because this type of food is lack of nutritional value but
it contains high enough calories, fat, and sugar. Junk food has become part of
people’s life in the urban areas that are very busy with the activity of work.
Junk food includes a hamburger, hot dogs, French fries, carbonated drink, candy
and various types of cake that use an artificial sweetener.
Too often consuming junk food can cause bad impacts for your health. The
low nutritional content as well as the high calories conceived by junk food can
trigger various diseases. The most possible impact of too much consuming junk
food is obesity. Besides, junk food can also increase the risk of diabetes, a
heart attack, as well as hypertension.
A study carried out by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health,
researched the harmful effects of junk food. This research obtain the
conclusion that eating fast food twice or more in a week have the possibility
of 27 percent larger to develop diabetes and 56 percent die because of diseases
of the heart, compared to participants who seldom or never eat fast food. Even
the participants that are known eat fast food four times or more in a week,
have the risk of death from a heart attack which increase to 80 percent.
Western people are fond of consuming junk food so that their insulin hormone
remains high the rest of the day. This case can lead to metabolic processes in
the body to be disrupted as well as raising the risk of diabetes type 2.
The women who are pregnant should avoid eating junk food. Eating junk food
is not only bad herself but also for the baby. The baby will be so vulnerable
to diabetes and hypertension. Besides, a number of studies in china revealed
that the rate of breast cancer in the country has increased due to the modern
lifestyle that people consume junk food too often.
Furthermore, a research from the University of Adelaide shows that eating
full of junk food for children will make their IQ two points lower than a child
who does not eat much junk food. Even though the IQ difference is not so
subtle, this study proves that children’s way of eating at age of 6 to 24
months give small but significant effects on their IQ when they reach eight
years old. Therefore, it is important for parents to consider the long-term
impact of food that is given to their children. In addition, some junk foods
have the addictive substances as well as containing an artificial sweetener.
These substances will make a child become more hyper and easily distracted.
This will cause the child, especially a male, to like fighting.
According to Jim White,
the owner of Jim White Fitness and Nutrition studios in Virginia beach, VA,
food such as carbohydrates from powdery starch, packaged cookies, potato chips,
sweet carbonated drink, and burger and fries, not only add a layer of fat in the
body, but also it can cause physical disorders that make you feel
uncomfortable.
Consuming too much junk
food can cause several impacts to your body. First, your skin can be
wrinkles before its time. The adverse effect of eating junk food is not only
overweight, but also on skin. Sugar, Trans fats, and flour, can cause the
insulin jump up and stimulate an inflammatory. Chemical reaction occurs when
sugar molecules strike protein or saturated fat accelerates the aging process
by deactivating antioksidant in the body. You also be susceptible to damage due
to exposure to the rays of the sun and make the skin wrinkles faster.
The second impact is
constipation. Fresh bread, rice, and other products which are made of the base
of powdery starch and have low fibre, can cause constipation. In fact, fibre
has function to move everything through the body. If you have dehydration, the
condition of constipation will be more severe. It will be worse if you drink
soda.
The third is heartburn.
Consuming too much junk food can trigger stomach acid disorders. Foods that
contain high saturated fat takes longer time to digest. When the burger or
French fries that you enjoy overnight haven’t been completely digested in the
morning, the excess stomach acid can be pushed up into the oesophagus when it
comes to the next time to eat. Therefore, you feel nausea and heartburn.
The fourth is worsening
the PMS (Pre Menstruation Syndrome) symptoms. Food is not actually led to the
appearance of premenstrual syndrome symptoms. There are other sources that make
it even worse, for example, sugar and starch, that causes insulin up and down
rapidly. This will affect chemical compounds in the brain and can aggravate the
mood swing that you feel.
The fifth is headache.
Have you ever experienced headaches after successive consuming fatty food? The
pain is caused by tyramine, a chemical compound that is formed in the breakdown
of a specific protein in food dye and nitrate. Experts say these materials can
improve blood flow to the brain, then it causes changes in blood vessels that
inflict pain. Because of that, you should carefully observe more the food you eat.
Stay away from foods that have unnatural colour.
The sixth is bloat.
Various processed foods that are used for junk foods contain high levels of
sodium. Sodium is the cause of flatulence because the sodium set the number of
blood and blood vessels to bind water. High intake of sodium will draw water
from your body cells and cause a body hold more liquid as compensation.
Drinking diet soda will make your condition is getting worse, because the
bubble and the artificial sweetener can trigger bloat.
Although junk foods taste good and can be obtained easily and quickly, it
has enough risk to health so that you are advised not to consume this kind of
food too often. It will be better if we include green vegetables and fruits to
consume. A study conducted by the University of Leicester found that green
vegetables and fruits are able to reduce the risk of diabetes type 2 until 14
percent.
