Abstract

Junk food refers to fast food, which are easy to make and easy to consume. They are low in nutritional value and have only lying fat in it causing ill effect on the health of consumer. Junk food contains high level of refined sugar, white flour, Trans fat, polyunsaturated fat salt and numerous food additives such as monosodium glutamate (MSG) and tartrazine, and lacking in protein, vitamin and fiber. It should be avoided, because of lack of energy, high cholesterol and poor concentration. It causes a lot of harmful effect on the body like obesity, diabetes, heart disease and various types of skin cancers.

Highlights

  • Junk food refers to fast food, which are easy to make and easy to consume

  • Balanced diet has been replaced by junk or fast foods by young generation and people from all age group demand fast food in their everyday eating habits, due to rapid increase in disposable income with changing attitude towards food choices act as a driving force for processed food which resulted in changing consumption pattern away from traditional food to processed and high value foods

  • Consumption of fast food among people seems to have an adverse effect on dietary quality in ways that could increase risk for obesity, heart diseases etc

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Introduction

‘Junk food’ was coined by Michael Jacobson, in 1972 in the public interest who wanted to raise public attention about the issue of foods with a high caloric value and a low nutritional value. Balanced diet has been replaced by junk or fast foods by young generation and people from all age group demand fast food in their everyday eating habits, due to rapid increase in disposable income with changing attitude towards food choices act as a driving force for processed food which resulted in changing consumption pattern away from traditional food to processed and high value foods These high calorie foods are steeply damaging human health and lead to metabolic changes and conditions such as becoming overweight, high blood pressure and raised blood glucose and cholesterol which are among the leading causes of death due non communicable diseases in India [1]. It Points out that fried and processed foods contain high amounts of trans fats, saturated fats in addition to oxcycholestrol which may prove dangerous to heart health as reported by scientists from china in the National meeting of the American chemical society

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