In America, junk food has become a really popular source of
food in everyday life. When watching movies, working on projects late at night,
and reading a book, junk food has always been a buddy that people relied
on. But what people known junk foods for are the bad things about them and how
they are addicting, and also how they are the leading cause of many
consequences like obesity, heart diseases and many others. But has anyone ever
thought of the positive impacts that junk food bring to us beside the negative
consequences? 😒
What
kinds of foods are considered junk? Junk foods are foods are high in fat, salt,
and/or sugar and low in nutritional content. What most people didn’t know is that junk
food actually contains different kinds of nutrients that the body needs. As
Tufts University Health & Nutrition’s scholarly journal article “Junk food,
or junky food choices?” stated, for every bit of junk food we consume there is
a small amount of nutrients that we consume along with the junk food. For
example, vitamins A, B6, Bi2, C, folate, calcium, protein, and iron. These
important nutrition elements are actually in the junk food, a source of food
that people believe to be harmful.
Why are vitamins A, B2, B6, C, folate, calcium, protein, and
iron an important kind of nutrition to the human body? From the Heart; Stroke
Foundation’s nutrients chart it shown that these nutrients provide many uses
for the body. Vitamin A can help the body lower the risk of getting cancer,
normalize the blood sugar, prevent asthma, and it also helps construct a more
healthier skin and hair. Vitamin B2 and B6 both help the body convert food into
energy the body uses, metabolize fats and protein, and the most important is
that they also help the nervous system function properly. Vitamin C provides
protection against immune system deficiencies, cardiovascular diseases,
prenatal health problems, eye diseases, and even skin wrinkling.
What are the main reasons that make
people prefer junk food over healthy food? From research, there are few reasons
that people picked junk food as their main course. The first reason is the
amount of time workers get for their lunch break. Office Team had done a survey
to reveal the information about lunch break of workers. The result shows that
48% of the workers only have less than 30 minutes of lunch break. Therefore,
these workers try to find a place where they can get their food as fast as
possible, so they can have more time to eat and socialize with friends. These
places that provide the fast service are known as fast food.
CONCLUSION
Junk foods are commonly known for their
negative effects, but there are also many good benefits. They are not only
providing people with nutrients that the body needs to keep bones, muscles, and
the brain strong, but junk food can also provide economical benefits. Economical
benefits such as helping people save time on their lunch break, save money over
a long period of time, while also providing a tasty meal. Therefore, junk foods
are providing more positive things to people, than there are negative ones. Junk foods are associated with negative
implications on human health. They seem to be the easiest and faster mode of
food taking more so when one is busy with work or held up in preparing food for
consumption.
