Addiction of Junk Food and Social Media Impact on Daily Lifestyle of an Individual
Khan Nashra, Ansari rida
Introduction:
The term ‘Junk Food’ was coined in 1972 by Michael Jacobson, Director of Center for Science by the public interest. Junk food is a term for food that has little nutritional value and is often more hazardous to our health.Junk foods mostly contains Food additive such as monosodium glutamate (MSG) high levels of calories from sugar or fat with low amount of protein, vitamins or minerals. Most of the junk foods are rich in fats and poor in other nutrients. Common junk food includes Fast food, chips, candy, gum, sweet desserts, sugary carbonated beverages as well as alcoholic beverages.
The terms junk food and fast food are used interchangeably. These days, spending time on social media is common among people of all generations. As we scroll through Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or Twitter we see different foods on that platform they look scrumptious and appetising and from the same we crave for different junk foods like pizza’s, burger’s, noodle’s, cakes, momos, etc. social media might be impacting our eating habits. However, junk food has proved to be least part responsible for obesity crisis. In 29 states, the obesity rate is increasing almost larger number in students are severely overweight. Not only obesity is growing problem but other food addiction is also becoming more prevalent.
Fast food may be easily accessible and convenient, but it also contains unhealthy ingredients which may taste delicious,look pleasing to the eyes,but is unhealthy for body. Fast food addiction in people develops in the same way as any other type of addiction. People who eat fast food regularly has more risk of developing different types of diseases including:High cholesterol, TypeIIdiabetes,Fatigue,Hypertension,Kidney and liver problems, Heart disease,and eating disorder. The impact of the social media is so great that people eating at home and sending pictures of the meals, influencing other to buy, and eat that type of food
