...JUNK FOOD AND IT’S AFFECT ON HEALTH Deatrice Bonner DeVry University Junk Food and it’s Affect on Health Melissa, who is an employee at a retirement facility has just graduated from college and wants to make some changes in her life. She just got a new job in her field as a Medical Assistant. Now that she has finished school her next goal was to lose weight. Melissa weighed 230 lbs. and she didn’t have any health issues, but lately she was feeling tired, having headaches, and have been stressed out. So she decided to join a gym membership because she felt like she had no motivation working out at home. She went to the gym five days a week for two weeks, but then it started going down to two or three times a week. She wasn’t eating strictly clean but started eating healthier foods. She did lose about 5 lbs. in two weeks, but then she stopped working out and continued binge eating and gained more than 5 lbs. during that time. So I tried to encourage her by going back to the gym and also preparing her meals for the week. I also told her instead of binge eating when she get stressed to go walking instead. I tried everything I could to help her lose the weight. I told her that she would feel a change in her body if she ate right and left the sugar and fatty foods alone. Many people don’t realize how harmful junk food can be to their body along with lack of exercise. Setting a goal to get rid of junk food and eating healthier can sometimes be very hard to do. We are either...
Words: 1683 - Pages: 7
...How Junk Food Affects Children Frendester Shanna Williams DeVry University How Junk Food Affects Children It is getting late as a busy mother of three, wife, and nurse is rushing to pick up her kids and head to softball practice. Its thirty minutes until the oldest child is expected to be on the field. The kids are crying and screaming that they are hungry. What is the mother to do? McDonalds bails her out again. The kids get a quick, hot, and fun meal. This mother doesn’t have to face the challenge of balancing work and life situations, especially cooking a dinner. All may seem at ease, but let’s reveal what is really at stake here. Once at softball practice the mother notices that her child is lagging behind during drills, becoming agitated, and is easily fatigued. She also notices that her child is not as lean as the other girls. The other children seem to be running circles around her child. It seems that her child is continuing to become more and more behind the expectations of her team at each practice. What is wrong? She does some research and is quickly taken by surprise. A diet comprised of an increased intake of sugars, sodium, and additives has numerous repercussions. “However, the potential negative psychosocial aspects of obesity, such as poor body image (BI), social isolation, and stigmatization, are also relevant in the lives of youth” (Martin, 2011, p.245). Parents and other youth leaders are strongly encouraged to be the defense against such harsh ramifications...
Words: 2609 - Pages: 11
...Junk Food In the essay “How Science Supports Junk Food Addiction,” the author, Cynthia Andrzejczyk, explains junk food companies’ efforts to perfect the taste of their foods and create an addiction for their products. In 1999, a meeting between the biggest junk food companies took place to discuss the problem of obesity in America. Despite the severity of the problem, Stephen Sanger, the CEO of General Mills, stated that his companies worry “was not about good nutrition; it was about what tasted good” (qtd. In Andrzejczyk 375). This statement ended all efforts to make food healthier. When it comes to taste, junk food companies have it down to a science. Junk food companies have hired specialists to increase the desirability of certain foods. One of these specialists is Howard Moscowitz, a Harvard graduate with a degree in Experimental Psychology (Andrzejczyk 375). Moscowitz’s main goal is getting certain foods to their maximum “optimization” and “bliss point”” (Andrzejczyk 375). The “bliss point” of a food is the best version of itself. This bliss point is normally the culprit for fast food addiction. It gets you to the point where you need to eat more because it tastes so good. Potato chips are deemed as the “perfect junk food” (Andrzejczyk 375 . However one of the biggest issues, associated with potato chips, was people deemed them unhealthy. In 1957, potato chip sales were dropping off. Ernest Dichter, a psychologist, found that the reason for this drop off was that...
Words: 1272 - Pages: 6
...Causes and Effects: Junk Food Most of the people nowadays, especially youngsters, prefer to have their meals outside at fast-food restaurants or cafeterias instead of having home-made food. According to a research, 70% of the young children eat fast food frequently in the California, USA (Driscoll, 2013). That type of food is called ‘Junk Food’, which contains high amount of calories and less essential nutrients that are necessary for our body (Anonymous, 2014). Pizzas, hamburgers, soft-drinks, chips, candies etc. are some of the examples of the junk food. Excessiveness in anything is bad, and so is the in-take of junk food. This essay will be discussing about several causes and effects of eating too much junk food on our lives. To start with, junk food’s appealing price and delivery services are causes that motivate people to eat junk food a lot. Junk food prices are comparatively less than that of a healthy food. In a study it is shown that junk food costs $1.50 less per day than healthy food or approximately $550 per year (Polis, 2013). Another leading cause is it is ubiquitous that means it is almost available everywhere. Places like shopping centres where chocolates and candies are placed near the counter or the soda coolers at every exit point of the stores or even fast-food stores within the petrol stations make junk food easily accessible to us (Yum, 2012). Moreover, the junk food is mainly targeting the areas where low-income people live. In a research, it was found...
Words: 1018 - Pages: 5
...Thành Danh ESSAY Class: EAP1640C ID:512101213 Topic: Encourage a person to stop eating junk food Nowaday, each person have not normal meal. They usually eat your meals and eat more junk food that has a lot of energy such as fast food, sweets such as ice cream, candy, donuts, and prepackaged treats, soda, and potato chips, among many others. So, junk food became popular in the developed countries. It became the eating habits of many people, because many people think it tastes great, fast, and convenient. However, junk food has a significant impact on human health. It affects a serious way, because it is the cause of health problems. First, the effect of eating junk food is energy imbalances. Many people skip breakfast or other meals of the day, choosing for a quick meal instead of eating a perfectly meal. Junk food is cause of increase energy levels, which people like, but then energy levels will quickly decrease. It makes the body lacks the energy suddenly and rapidly declining. In addition, continuous increase or decrease energy levels make for mood instability and make it difficult to get enough sleep at night. Thus, junk food causes energy imbalances in the body. Furthermore, the effects of junk food is healthy, because most junk food are mostly sugar, salt, flour, fat, and more dangerous that is saturated fat which is the main cause of obesity. People who eat a lot of junk food tend to gain weight quickly, which can lead to obesity over time. Moreover, in a short time...
Words: 571 - Pages: 3
...questions Use the model essay emailed to you to answer the questions below. 1) Write the thesis statement from the introduction below. Tourism impacts can be arranged into environment, socio-cultural and economic. 2) Our essay thesis is: Research shows that over consumption of junk food is detrimental to health. To what extent can education be the answer to this problem? What do you think the essay thesis is for this essay? The essay thesis is clear, easy to understand all words and show how we need to divide into essay. Do you think the essay thesis is clear from the thesis statement in the introduction? The essay thesis is very clear from the thesis statement in the introduction because is summary all the main idea which will be on essay. 3) What are the subtopics for this essay? Subtopic 1: Facts of junk food Subtopic2: Effect of junk food Subtopic3: What is a solution to avoiding the harmful effects of eating too much junk food? 4) Looking at the subtopic list – how many body paragraphs would you assume there are. There are three paragraphs in my essay 5) Write the topic sentence for paragraph 1 here. Today, fast food is one of the essential needs of human which gives them quick energy and save time. Besides, each of us needs to know about facts of fast food. There are a lot of the truth about junk food such as high sugar, quick service, high in fat . . . but especially junk food is cheaper and low nutrient. 6) What...
Words: 765 - Pages: 4
...The idea of taxing junk food and sugary drinks while sound like it could only do good but it more likely to do only more harm. A tax on junk food is said to lower child and adult obesity, create more money for the state and still give the people the choice of junk food if they want. The truth is that taxes on junk food does not help combat obesity, lower junk food consumption and takes away some freedoms from the american people. In this day in age where kids get twelve percent of their calories from fast-food restaurants and child obesity has more than doubled scenes 1980 going from seven percent to eighteen percent in 2012 it is important to worry about children's health but a food tax doesn't do much to help childhood obesity (Szabo, Liz)....
Words: 940 - Pages: 4
...Junk Food and Child Obesity Jaya Sinha Childhood obesity has become a prominent health issue in developed countries and has now gained access in the developing world as well. Secular trends indicate increasing prevalence rates of childhood obesity in India, from 9.8% (2006) to 11.7% (2009). Similar increase can be seen in other developing countries; 4.1% (1974) to 13.9% (1997) in Brazil and from 12.2% (1991) to 15.6% (1993) in Thailand. Important determinants of childhood obesity include poor dietary habits, sedentary lifestyle, high socioeconomic status, unawareness and false beliefs about nutrition, marketing by transnational food companies, increasing academic stress, and poor facilities for physical activity. Obesity among children has medical as well as psychosocial impact leading to huge economic impact on the individual family, health sector as well as the country. Successful prevention/reduction and management of childhood obesity requires a multilevel approach involving the family, school, peer group, government and the society as a whole. Introduction Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally and its prevalence has doubled in the last two decades (1). Over the last 5 years, most developing countries have reported prevalence rates of obesity (inclusive of overweight) > 15% in children and adolescents aged 5–19 year (2–4). Childhood obesity is increasing at an alarming pace in India, giving rise to adult diseases in youth, like high blood pressure...
Words: 3784 - Pages: 16
...dietary intake, including: George is overweight and suffers from a variety of medical disorders such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart failure and other medical problems that could be worsened by the junk food that he consumes. Another factor that could trigger his weight gain and medical disorders is that he does not consume the correct types of nutrients which are needed for the body to be healthy and he also does not take time out in the day to have good and nutritional foods which are packed although it is essential to have home cooked meals that contain a wide variety of the essential nutrients. George’s lifestyle is always busy and he is always on the go and often takes meals that are quick to make or pickup i.e. pot noodles, takeaways and ready meals and due to him not having enough free time he may lack in needed sleep which could also trigger other medical disorders. George’s socio-cultural factors and social policy is limited and he spends a lot of time alone and surrounding himself...
Words: 1207 - Pages: 5
...Everyone should think twice before deciding to eat fast food. There are many health risks when it comes to eating food that’s made within a matter of seconds. The food is not properly taken care of, which leads all the way back to where the food is originally produced. Even if it is easy to buy and cheap, the health risks outweigh the five minutes of satisfaction that fast food brings. One should carefully think before they eat fast food. The health risks that come from eating so much fast food are life-threatening. Obesity can come from eating fast food that’s bought often. Fast food is made from a lot of high saturated fats and calories if it isn’t work off, then you can grow to become obese. “Even a small quantity of fast food contains high calories. People are fooled by the quantity and they tend to eat more. Thus, without knowing, they consume a lot of calories” (How). This is a prime example on how people can consume so many calories, and without even knowing. Obesity isn’t the only risk, because heart disease is also a prime factor. “What you eat can affect your heart’s health and your chances of developing life-threatening heart disease” (Robin). When you eat all of the fats, sugars, and salts, your heart can grow weak and it will endanger you. There is no safe risk for your body when it comes to eating fast food. Food-borne illnesses can come from out fast food. What most people don’t know is the conditions the animals are living in before they’re killed. Cows are...
Words: 1175 - Pages: 5
...Junk foods are very much popular among the people now days. Because of its accessibility, cost and taste, it makes themselves popular. But the hazards of junk food are also very high. Cholesterol, Obesity, Diabetics, High B.P are some of the results caused by the junk foods. Though people do not recognize the cause, they just get addicted to these foods. One of the reasons for the addiction of junk foods is the busy schedules of parents. When parents find no time to cook food in their house, due to their jobs, naturally children as well as the adults get attracted to these junk foods. Junk really means “RUBBISH”. And so, are we eating “Rubbish Foods”? Considering the ingredients, mostly every doctor suggests his patients not to eat them, but to have fresh fruits and vegetables. Now-days many companies produce packed foods which are really harmful to a body, if the body doesn’t do much exercise. Mostly in every packed food, there are high fat, sugar etc... , which affects the body badly. There will be no nutritional values for many of them and only benefit an in-taker feel in those foods is its taste. Skin problems like pimples occur because of excess in take of oil. The junk foods are mostly prepared by oils which may not be suitable for one’s body type. There are many cases which reports obesity found in small age groups. it causes severe effects in one's life. Eating while watching TV can increase the intake of foods and it can surely damage the body. There is no problem...
Words: 304 - Pages: 2
...Physical Behaviors Relating to Food It is obvious and should be common sense that what a person puts in his or her body will have a direct effect, not only on the person’s overall physical health, but also his or her mental health, emotions, think, and the ways of processing information. The most influential factors regarding human intake are air, water, food & beverages. I will be concentrating on the main focus of the direct effect of food on emotional and physical behaviors. The human body was designed to function as a highly-tuned, self-sustaining, bio-chemical machine that has a very complex system of symbiotic interplay within its infrastructure. Just as if a person was to put water in the gas tank of his or her car, as a result he or she has major mechanical problems requiring massive repairs. The human body has certain limitations and guidelines that must be very closely adhered. The human body must maintain critical balances to remain healthy and working the way it was intended and to be able to balance the effects of food on human beings. Nutrition is a basic biological influence on human behavior. Consuming large amounts of “junk food,” like sweetened boxed cereals, candy, carbonated drinks, potato chips, and fast food cause depression, hyperactivity, and even anger in children and teenagers. The amount of candy eaten by children and sometimes adults also causes major sugar imbalances to occur in the human body. In the article “Food Traditions: The Thread that Links...
Words: 1410 - Pages: 6
...it's pretty obvious that the Unites States has a problem with people being overweight, and one of the reasons people are obese is because they are eating and drinking unhealthily. Things like candy, soda, and potato chips are big factors in people not eating healthy foods and becoming overweight. Because of this, the government is thinking about implementing a tax on these "non-essential" foods. This would cause the price of these foods to increase and hopefully result in people buying less of them. I agree, the United States government should implement a junk food tax. Some people could argue that this tax wouldn't make a difference as far as reducing the amount of junk food sold. But there is evidence that shows it could be successful. First off, there...
Words: 1118 - Pages: 5
...serious. According to statistic, the level of school teachers complaints on the students behavior have increased significantly (Natalia Svetlova, n.d.) . Students with behavioral problems driving the teacher to face some of difficulties and it will affect their ability and performance in teaching. For instance, teacher cannot punish the students that make problems as the students keep reminding that they have right and their parents can sue the teacher. This will make it challenging for the teacher to educate or make activity as it will interfere with the education process. As we can see there are a lot of causes that lead to severe problems of student behavior therefore there...
Words: 1280 - Pages: 6
...anymore. Between fast food and television people are becoming more and more lazy and relying on cheap foods to satisfy them both mentally and hunger wise. In this essay I will explain the importance of eating right and how your eating habit can affect your health in the long run. There are many reasons to eat healthy; one of those reasons is to support your immune system. Our body’s blood cells decide what’s good and what’s bad for us. If you’re constantly eating fruits and vegetables yr body will extract all the nutrients inside the fruits and vegetables to help support your immune system and help it fight against any bacteria that can cause illness. Now if you’re mostly eating junk foods, your body will not have any natural nutrients to extract and will not be able to support your immune system to ward off any bacteria that can/will cause illness. By not feeding your body right, eventually your body will start to shut down. Most people don’t see it as a problem since they feel medication can basically fix any kind of illness they encounter, but in the long run medication winds up damaging your body and the only other solution to cure the body that relied on the medication that was suppose to cure it is give it either a stronger dosage of medication or something different that will eventually cause another side affect. Now personally I don’t think my health is worth going through all that when all you had to do was change your eating habits. All these healthy foods (fruits and vegetables)...
Words: 1329 - Pages: 6
