...English Composition November 10th, 2013 Eating junk food can have a major negative impact on one's health. Though many people enjoy eating junk food and think it tastes great, the health risk and consequences can be very effective, and can range from everything to low energy levels to weight gain and illness. The term "junk food" encompasses a fairly broad category of food, but it typically refers to foods that are relatively high in caloric content, but low in nutritional value. Junk food is often high in sugar, salt, and fat, particularly saturated fat. It is often heavily processed and prepackaged, making it easy to prepare and eat. A few examples of foods often considered to be junk food include fast food, sweets such as ice cream, candy, debbie cakes, donuts, pre packaged treats, soda, and potato chips, among many others. Most people have no trouble pinpointing junk food; it is when they want to stop eating junk food that the trouble starts. The first effect of eating junk food is its impact on energy levels. The junk food causes energy levels to shoot up, which people like, but then energy levels will quickly crash, sending one back into the kitchen for another quick snack. In addition, junk food can cause moodiness, and make it difficult to get enough sleep at night, so energy levels are never restored to normal. Which means yes you will find yourself repeatedly looking for quick snacks throughout that night. Junk food doesn't contain the nutrients your body needs to...
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...Introductions (no hook yet): Children depend on junk food when they get to school. Whether it be the flaming hot cheetos they always walk past in the lunch line that they just can´t resist, or a pizza that they serve daily. As much as the kids will appreciate the never ending pizza and soda lunches, their bodies would say otherwise. This kind of food being served to students is extremely unhealthy. Kids will most likely alway choose junk food over the healthier option, causing the amount of obese children to increase drasticly, enabling unhealthy habits for these students in the future, and to their children. Paragraph 1: Moreover, kids are constantly choosing junk food over healthy food, and who's to blame them? In other words, if...
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...Thesis statement: Can junk food addiction be called a bad habit, such as smoking in the modern society? Supporting points: 1) What is junk food? Categories of junk food. 2) Statistics about fast-food. Health problems fast food can cause. 3) Why are people still visiting fast-food places if fast-food is often blamed for the poor health of many people? Everyday millions of people get addicted to junk food. These are people who do not have enough time, children, or those who find it affordable to eat in fast food places because of the low prices there. The junk food can be classified in few categories - snacks, fast food, and soft drinks. The first category are the snacks, which are being brought everyday by millions of people who are not concerned about how unhealthy it is and care only about the taste. The products from the fast food restaurants such as hamburgers are the second category. A person will buy a hamburger because it is very good in taste but he or she does not consider what really is inside this "meal" and how those ingredients might harm his or her health. It is hardly possible to pass McDonalds nowadays without stopping there and having a hamburger with a big Coke. Soft drinks are also a part of the junk food area. Soft drinks are incredibly bad for people's health due to their high level of sugar and other components. Fast food is a major reason for obesity and other health problems. A research on causes of obesity done by the medical center...
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...Food stamps are a way to assist American families stricken by poverty and should not be used to buy junk food, but instead should be used to purchase healthy food. The food stamp program is available to help American families, so they should be helped with regulations on the program that will improve their quality of life. To avoid the abuse of the program, there should be guidelines made for the food stamp program. Taxpayers should know that their money is going to benefit the lives of others, and not be wasted by making unnecessary purchases on junk food. These guidelines and limitations would ultimately improve the health of struggling American families. Food stamps should not be used to purchase junk food because it negatively impacts American families that rely on this program, thus guidelines should be set....
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...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 are the controlling ideas? The controlling ideas in first...
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...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...
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...Removing Junk Food from Public Schools Christopher Bisping ILR 260 Dr. Dee Griffin February 2013 Abstract Should junk food be removed from public schools? Those who support removing junk food from public schools say that it has no real nutritional value, and disrupts children’s learning capabilities. They also say that junk food is a leading factor of childhood obesity. On the other hand, those who oppose removing junk food from public schools say that it eliminates sources of funding that the U.S. government doesn’t provide. They also say that it usurps the responsibility of parents, and violates the First Amendment. To overcome the obesity epidemic, and give the children the nutrition they need to learn and become productive citizens we need to remove junk food from public schools. Removing Junk Food from Public Schools For the first time, the United States (U.S.) government is proposing standards to ensure schools serve more nutritious foods, ultimately leading to a ban on serving or selling junk food. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is setting new rules requiring schools to sell items such as water, diet sodas, baked chips, and low-calorie sport drinks instead of junk food. Lunchrooms will also be required to replace fatty à la carte items like nachos and fried cheese sticks with healthier items like low-fat burgers, fruit cups, yogurt and healthier pizzas. While some schools in the U.S. have already made improvements to their menus, schools...
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...Running head: MARKETING: ETHICS IN ADVERTISING Ethics in Advertising Among various problems faced by leaders and managers, the most challenging is the one dealing with ethical issues. The problem becomes more complex when addressing cross culture and multinational. It is undeniable fact that corporate leaders and manager are more focused in growing the business than running the business. The answer to this growth is new markets but these new markets emerge they come with new problems and demand innovative solutions. Marketing is one of the main platforms of interaction of any entity to rest of world, hence the potential for problems are high. As part of our learning team activity, we firmly believe that the ethics relating to advertisement is an interesting subject to explore the problems within and to arrive at a mitigate plan. The project is divided into three stages, the first stage is to identify and define the problem. In this stage the team identifies different situations, issues and potential problem leading to unethical practices in advertisements. This will help the team to define the problem based on situation and scenario. The second stage of the project is to explore various solutions that may keep advertisements within ethical limits. Preliminary part within this stage is to identify an ideal situation for ethical practices and then explore for solutions based on the result. Each team member provides different solutions as this will...
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...England has been known for their rich history and enlightenment on the impact of our world. But recent research has found that the English children have an unhealthy diet, due to the amount of junk food, availability of junk food and the lack of exercise. English children have high amounts of junk food in their diet. According to the newspaper; Guardian[1], 4/5 children, only take junk food to their lunchboxes, the rest of 1/5 of the children take the healthy recommended food, with the right nutritions and calories needed for a child. Researches have warned that with children that eat junk food three times a week have severe chance of worsening asthma and eczema[2]. Asthma rates in the England the past two decades. There has been a big decline in vitamins and minerals in their diet while the consumption of fat in oils found in junk food. There is a high availability of junk food in England. According to the dailymail[3] more than half of all meals eaten out in England are from fast food restaurants. These could contain; burgers, fried chicken, pizza etc. The low prices of junk food, encourages people to buy it as it could be a cheap alternative to their consumption of food. The independent.co.uk proves that all the fast foods restaurants have arose at an average of 8% from 2012[4]. English children have a lack of exercise. Studies have shown that up to 50% of children fail to meet the daily amount of physical activity. Researches from the Medical Research Council...
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...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...
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...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...
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...school systems across the United States, there are many different opinions on whether or not junk food should be banned. Some people favor the thought of junk food in school systems and feel as though kids should be able to eat what they want. Others believe that schools should provide students with healthier snacks and meals to eat. The true question is, how much is too much? There are certain school systems taking over meal plans and completely banning the food selection for kids to only health choices. Kids should be able to make choices for themselves and eat the food they want too eat. Having junk food in school systems has been known to bring up the percent of obesity in kids, but having junk food will give students freedom of choice, will help the vending contract revenue, and it will save money and complications in creating a new lunch program. Schools that allow students to eat what they want give’s the students dining options and also freedom of choice. Many school systems in America are strict enough already; they do not need to be even stricter and be told what to eat and what not to eat. When students can pick out their own food, it gives the student the feeling of personal responsibility. Margaret Johnson, an English and French teacher at West Las Vegas High School in Las Vegas, New Mexico, explains, “ junk food should be sold in schools-along with other food. Students will buy anything that coast under a dollar, is profitable, flavorful, visually appealing...
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...effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems. Physicians and researchers did numerous studies on children’s habits and lifestyles as an important part of society. Nowadays, children face big problems with obesity. As a result, researchers have learned that healthy habits could have a profound impact on the future of every child and get a better understanding of how children perceive healthy eating. Researchers have proved and would like to emphasize that obesity has tripled in Canadian children in recent decades. For this reason, researchers have identified that healthy behaviors have numerous benefits. By making healthy food choices and explaining the nutritional value of various foods to children will improve the lifestyle of every child and make children’s health better. After a large quantity of interviews that were used to collect data on what food children prefer to eat and why it was discovered that they have bad eating habits and lifestyle. Researchers have found that only 75% of children understood healthy eating by identifying what is healthy food and what is junk food. Almost all children have mentioned eating fruits and vegetables. Findings suggested that children had previously heard or thought about these topics. As a result, these findings were used to improve unhealthy lifestyles and to give many useful instructions about healthy food choices to parents. Researchers suggest expanding children’s knowledge about food and dietary...
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...hypertension, diabetes, and cancer. Can a tax on sugar and fat laden “junk” foods curb over-consumption? This works in theory, but in reality there are solid reasons why this tax won’t work. There are a large number of Americans that live in “food deserts” with limited access to healthy foods. For an obese person to make wise food choices, they must first value their health. Raising the price of unhealthy foods won’t instill value on health. One of the main reasons for the growing number of overweight Americans is the lack of exercise; a fat tax doesn’t address this problem. According to the Department of Agriculture, Food Deserts are defined as urban neighborhoods and rural towns without ready access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food. Instead of supermarkets and grocery stores, these communities may have no food access. In a food desert, residents are often served only by fast food restaurants and convenience stores that offer few healthy, affordable food options. For example, in Chicago, more than 500,000 residents live in food deserts, and an additional 400,000 live in neighborhoods with a preponderance of Hammond 2 fast food restaurants and no grocery stores nearby. Most of these people are low income. A food tax in these food deserts would increase the price of the only food available. The foods targeted are a large part of the food budget for low-income people, raising the prices on these foods would further impoverish an already poor demographic. Instead...
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...Food product choice can be overwhelming and is not made any easier with the influence of media advertisements by companies that want to sell their food products to us. There are many factors that we as consumers must take in to consideration. Do we accept that the advertisement is true, should we trust what is shown to us or should we research the product and compare the cost and nutritional value to other products on the market? Evidently, it’s up to consumer to make a decision on what they eat, nevertheless if we’re frequently exposed to food advertisements every time we read a glossy magazine or watch TV then we may be influenced in what we choose, especially when the advertisement is directed toward children . In this essay I will outline some influence towards one’s food choices and the links between media and children obesity and the effects television food commercials have on children’s food preferences. Food choices are influenced by vast quantity of interrelating factors and theory “it is not solely determined on physiological or nutritional” (Shepherd, 1999, p. 807). Other factor that may influence food choices are biological for example hunger, appetite and taste and then there economic and physical this may be prejudiced by the cost of the food and a individuals income the availably of food choice or education or the skill needed to cook the food. Psychological reason may have a effect on the food we eat for example what type of mood we in. when a we are stress...
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