Jawaban:

Junk Food

Junk food is identical with fast food. 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.

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.