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Salted Snack Foods, Candy, Gum, most Desserts, Fried fast food
and Carbonated Beverages are some of the major junk foods.
AERATED .COLA DRINKS
TOO MUCH CHEESE & FATS
YUMMY YUMMY CHOCKOLATES
Why Junk Food Is So Appealing?
The Time Factor:
Junk food addiction is so high because of its simplicity.
Why Junk Food Is So Appealing?
The Time Factor:
They are easy to prepare and are very tasty. Junk foods such as
potato wafers do not even need cooking or heating.
Why Junk Food Is So Appealing?
The Time Factor :
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
Why Junk Food Is So Appealing?
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.
Why Junk Food Is So Appealing?
Home and Restaurant Foods prepared out side the foods have a
great attraction for food buffs .
Vada Pavs, Potato Vada, Samosas etc.
Why Junk Food Is So Appealing?
Junk Food Advertising:
One estimate tells us Fritto Lays is selling a Billion bags of
Cheetos per year. It is an altogether different story that junk
food advertising has a major role in this .
Harmful 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.
Harmful Effects Of Junk Food
Fatigue
Harmful Effects Of Junk Food
Poor concentration:
These are traced to affect in immediate and medium term
periods.
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
Harmful Effects Of Junk Food
Heart Diseases:
Hypertension ( Increased Blood Pressure)
Myocardial infarction (Heart Attack)
Atherosclerosis
Peripheral Vascular Diseases
Ischemic Heart Disease
Dyslipidemia ( Increased Cholesterol)
Harmful Effects Of Junk Food
Anemia
Vitamin Deficiencies
Low Body Resistance
Obesity
Harmful Effects Of Junk Food
Osteoporosis
Harmful Effects Of Junk Food
Gastro-Intestinal Ailments:
Bloating of Stomach
Hyper Acidity
Stomach & Duodenal Ulcers
Nausea & Vomiting
Poor Appetite
Oral Thrushes & Stomatitis
Harmful Effects Of Junk Food
Intellectual & Mental Disturbances
Lack of Concentration
Headaches
Increased Irritability
Early Fatigue
AVOID THE HABIT OF JUNK FOOD
TRY HEALTHY FOOD
DON'T SAY CHEESE
GOOD FOOD A GOOD HABIT
Food can be
divided into
different groups .
GOOD FOOD A GOOD HABIT
We need to eat from each of the groups to stay healthy.
GOOD FOOD A GOOD HABIT
Food also gives the body the energy it needs for all growth and
repair of our body, normal body functions like our heartbeat,
breathing , and for activities such as walking, riding a bike,
skateboarding or playing football .
GOOD FOOD A GOOD HABIT
A diet which contains all the nutrients
CARBOHYDRATES,
PROTEINS,
FATS,
VITAMINS &
MINERALS etc. required by a child for the proper maintenance of
health and optimum growth is termed as a 'balanced diet'.
Nutrition is an input to and foundation for health and
development. Interaction of infection and malnutrition is
well-documented.
Better nutrition means stronger immune systems, less illness
and better health.
W.H.O. ON NUTRITION
Healthy children learn better.
Healthy people are stronger, are more productive and more able
to create opportunities to gradually break the cycles of both
poverty and hunger in a sustainable way...
W.H.O. ON NUTRITION
Better nutrition is a prime entry point to ending poverty and a
milestone to achieving better quality of life.
Freedom from hunger and malnutrition is a basic human right and
their alleviation is a fundamental prerequisite for human and
national development.