Article:junk food contamination by unscrupulous people by nimra pathan

Article: junk food contamination by unscrupulous people

Article by Nimra Pathan

 Class Bs part 3 (1^st semester)

Roll num: 2k15/mc/103

Mixing of junk food products has become more common nowadays.  

Most of us are aware of the reality that the junk food is unhealthy but we are eating it. Some consume it weekly and others on monthly basis. Students who are studying in schools, colleges and universities are eating this stuff due to which they are facing disease. They are eating unhealthy food that affects their life as well as their health. Parents are responsible for the good or bad so it is parents who are fully responsible for the good or bad eating habits among their child. They should train their child about eating habits from childhood and make them clear about the difference between healthy and junk foods.

Health could be affected by junk foods which are mixed by unscrupulous people. They mix the food just to earn money. Many schools could improve the amount and variety of healthy food choices for their students. Junk food targets the kids by advertisements. Through advertising, the big junk food industry is significantly influencing our children’s food preferences. Despite the best effort of parents to promote healthy eating, these advertisements are manipulating the minds of children towards them. Kids are being told by big budget marketing that junk food and sugary drinks are lip-smacking. The reality is that, they are rotting children’s teeth,  it is a crime to adulterated the food products.

Mostly, office workers or the bachelors who live away from their home are consuming the junk food. Sometimes, those housewives go for the junk food who does not want to do house chorus. People who want to celebrate their birthday parties and other events like fairs are also relying on it.

Without any fear the people mix junk foods which are found in the street people use to buy many products which are unhealthy. They know disadvantages of the junk food but still they purchase it. Recently in Faisalabad, Punjab Food Authority (PEF) has sealed a food factory on charge of preparing unhygienic and adulterated food items. As many as 23 food outlets in Islamabad have been issue challan for not following food safety laws.

Recently the Cantonment Board of Hyderabad (CBH) sealed sweet shops including the most famous Soghat-e-shireen in Hyderabad. Sealed outlets include Energy, both branches of Mirchi 360, Eat and take, Panna cassata and so on. The food inspector said that the outlets are sealed due to unhygienic conditions of kitchen, lack of cleanliness, use of unfiltered water, expired beverages, presence of insects, and so on.

This junk food highly affects the digestive system as well as nervous system. It increases cholesterol, fat, depression, food poison, and hypertension as well. As the restaurants and outlets are using same used ingredients and oil in foodstuff. Doctors say, junk food consumption must be control. People really know the consequences of this fatty, lack of protein food but are eating them. Junk food has too much fat and too much saturated fat in the diet will cause people to put on weight and get fat or obese.

Junk is a kind of addicted you get hooked on it and continue eating it in an uncontrolled way. Despite the fact that it not healthy the more you consume the more difficult you will find to opt for healthy food. Ending a junk food addiction might be difficult but not impossible. To beginning with you can successively decrease the frequency of eating junk food and try to eat more homemade foods.