Junk Food Essay: Our Greatest Enemy

“Our Greatest Enemy”
Food is source of fuel for the human body, like water and air it allows humans to live, but what happens when food becomes our enemy? People try to eat healthy, but the food that is considered junk food is usually are white bread, crackers, sweetened pastries, sweetened carbonated beverages and frozen foods these are very unhealthy snacks for the human body. Junk food makes the human body weak and inactive compared to other foods that will give energy such as vegetables and fruits. People know junk foods are high in sugars, fat, and salt, yet people continue to buy and eat them. The way the food industry makes their food is unhealthy and dangerous because of ingredients and chemicals that go into the food .The way
The food industry use advertisements to promote the product they are selling to the future consumers. Even though there are advertisements that do promote healthy eating and organic snacks, they are not as numerous and tend to attack a smaller audience. The food industry is unethical because of the chemicals they use in their products and the advertisements manipulate their consumers in to buying junk food products. Junk food, seems to be a delicious snack to replace a meal you might have missed for that day, furthermore eating that one bag of chips seem harmless but no it is all a lie! Junk food has mad science behind it. Michael Moss the author of the article “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food”, interviews a man named Steven Witherly, he a scientist on food. According to Moss, Witherly says “If something melts down quickly, your brain thinks that there is no calories in it...you keep eating” (487).For example, both Lays chips and Cheetos puffs melts in your mouth quickly. Lay’s slogan is “You can’t just eat one” because the chip melts into your mouth and the flavor goes with it, people want to continue eating. When consumers buy snacks and look at the ingredients, consumers do not know what the chemicals are in the