#ULOG 2 Represents "YOU" - The Junk Food

What is Junk food?

a pejorative term for food containing high levels of calories from sugar or, protein, vitamins or minerals. Junk food can also refer to high protein food like meat prepared with saturated fat. Food from many hamburger outlets, pizza and fried chicken outlets is often considered as junk food. but that is considered only as a broad umbrella. These foods are prepared in a way that they look appealing and are enjoyable so you are chemically programmed to ask for more. According to Dr. Sunali Sharma, Dietician & Nutritionist, Amandeep Hospital, "Commercial products including but not limited to salted snack foods, gum, candy, sugary desserts, fried fast food, and sweetened carbonated beverages that have little or no nutritional value but are high in calories, salt, and fats may be considered junk foods. Though not all fast foods are junk foods, but a great number of them are. For instance, a salad may be fast food, but is definitely not junk food. Some foods like burgers, pizzas, and tacos may alternate between junk and healthy categories depending on the ingredients, calories and process of manufacturing."

Why junk foods are bad to eat

Frequent consumption of junk food increases the intake of excess fat, simple carbohydrates, and processed sugar which may lead to a higher risk of obesity and cardiovascular diseases among other chronic health problems. The resulting obesity may begin clogging up the arteries and lay the basis of an impending heart attack. It has also been suggested that eating junk food affects the brain in the same way as consuming addictive drugs. An addiction to junk food may even result in rejection of healthier food options like fruits, vegetables, salads etc. leading to further lack of nourishment.

Where did junk foods come from

Junk food is popular the world over, from Israel 's Cheetos-like Bamba to Peru's Doña Pepe, a chocolate cookie doused in sprinkles. We recently published an article callked This is What Junk Food Looks Like Around the World, and our research got us thinking: Exactly where did junk food come from in the first place?

Unsurprisingly, its origins trace themselves back to our own country, where two brothers selling a delicious concoction of popcorn, peanuts, and molasses at the Chicago World Fair might well have invented the genre.

Since then, the junk food wheel of creation has continued to spin, churning out everything from chocolate bars and corn chips to today’s creations of cake pops or yogurt-covered pretzels (and no, just because they are covered in yogurt does not mean they are healthy).

Here are some of the world's most popular junk food

Cracker Jack: 1893

It all began in 1893, when two vendors – brothers Frederick and Louis Rueckheim – at the World’s Fair in Chicago made a concoction of popcorn, peanuts, and molasses that was wildly popular. A few years later, in 1896, their sweet invention went on to become sold commercially as Cracker Jack. Twenty years after it was created, Cracker Jack became the best–selling sweet in the world.

Hershey Chocolate Bar: 1900

We could recognize the wrapper the world over. After a couple of years of experimenting in chocolate making, Milton S. Hershey created and introduced what he decided to call a chocolate bar around the 1900s. From that point forward, Hershey Chocolate became the country’s largest chocolate manufacturing company.
source: https://www.thedailymeal.com/travel/where-did-junk-food-come

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