The Importance Of Junk Food

Junk food should be restricted in order to avoid addiction. Nowadays, the custom of consuming junk food is increasing day by day making it difficult for people to stop eating it due to its wide availability. Junk food can be seen everywhere, including markets, schools, and restaurants which make it impossible for people to neglect buying it. For instance, Joann Rodrigues, a girl who was addicted to sweets and other junk food, was consuming 15 bars of chocolate together with fast food every day until she became the biggest girl in her school. After 12 years, she decided to drop eating that much of junk food, but she couldn’t because every time she felt unhappy and lonely, she returned back to her tragic habit (Croce 1). Therefore, parents should …show more content…
For example, a study that was done by researchers from the FOOD plus Research Centre at the University of Adelaide has found that the high consumption of junk food by pregnant women can lead to children being born with an addiction to junk food (High Fat …Junk Food Addiction). This study showed that the consumption of high fatty and sugary food stimulates the production of opioids in the body creating good feelings. Thus, when pregnant women consume junk food, “changes will occur in the development of the opioid signaling pathway of an unborn child 's brain, resulting in offspring being less sensitive to opioids and possessing a consequent lower tolerance to junk food, such that higher quantities need to be consumed to achieve a junk food high”(High Fat…Junk Food Addiction). Therefore, pregnant women should avoid eating unhealthy choices as well as doctors; they should prevent prenatal exposure to junk foods in order to allow them to give birth to normal and healthy children without any …show more content…
People have to think twice before eating junk food because their health depends on what they eat every day. Meanwhile, food is responsible for the proper functioning of people’s body, so they have to know what is good and healthy for their body and what is not. As most people know, junk foods contain high levels of fats, calories, salts, and sugars that can affect their health negatively by causing severe health diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart problems. Thus, governments should impose certain taxes on junk foods to cut obesity and prevent addiction because “Taxing unhealthy foods is expected to reduce their consumption through the foods ' own and cross-price elasticity” (Franck, Grandi, and Eisenberg). As a result, this issue will not only reduce people’s consumption of junk food, but also increase incentives for food companies and restaurants to create healthier