Healthy Food is Better Than Junk Food

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Healthy food is better than junk food

We are living in an age of MacDonald, KFC and star bucks where it becomes too hard to resist the tantalizing offers of pizzas, burgers, French fries and other appealing stuff these food chains have to offer. The healthier alternatives of food, such as fresh fruits, vegetables, lean meat and whole grains are too unappealing to ignite such a craving and finally preference for eating. However, increasing obesity among teens, heart problems, eating disorders and new researches call for our attention. The paper discusses healthy and junk food choices, their impact on human body and mind in addition to some animal researches and concludes that healthy food is certainly better than junk food.

Healthy food provides not only the right source of energy for everyday bodily functions but balanced amount of nutrients like vitamins and minerals fulfill the needs to perform at its optimum level. Junk food, on the other hand gives quick burst of energy that is followed by slow and groggy feeling and its fat content leads to obesity. While healthy food keeps a steady flow of energy throughout the day, it maintains and increases stamina and productivity. Junk foods slow down metabolic activity and cause depleted concentration and energy that makes human body tired. Healthy foods have good cholesterols while junk food is high in bad cholesterol level that has adverse effects on liver. Junk food compulsive eaters are prone to fell ill more readily than healthy eater as they lack healthy nutrients to fight back the illness.

In junk food, useful and healthy nutrients are lost during refining process that eliminates vitamins, minerals, fiber and phyto...

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...its very name suggests has nothing to offer in terms of energy and nutrients. Rather, it weakens the human ability to fight back. Furthermore, obesity, eating disorders, increasing cholesterol level, heart/ liver issues, productivity problems in addition to newly discovered, pregnancy and addiction issues clearly indicate that healthy food is certainly better than junk food for human life and development.

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