Health Hazards and Knowledge about Junk Foods-A Review

Abstract

In consumer societies, modern diets based on unhealthy fast foods, convenience foods, energy
dense snacks, and soft drinks, the abundance and omnipresence of food, and sedentary
lifestyles and electronic recreation that minimizes physical activity have led to serious weight
control problems. A particularly severe trend impacting future health levels are the high, and in
most countries still rising, levels of overweight and obesity in infants and children. Junk food
tastes good, but the effects on the health is detrimental. Junk foods have become a prominent
feature of the diet of youngsters, especially in the developing country. The health problems that
stem from overweight and obesity can shorten the life span. Future medical practitioners should
know that these kinds of eating habits will create nutritional deficiencies along with weight gain
which ultimately ends in metabolic syndrome. In this review, we will discuss health hazards of
junk food and knowledge and opinions of the adolescents.