9 Reasons Why Students Eat Junk Foods & 20 reasons To Avoid Them

Today, you and I will carefully look at 9 reasons why students Eat Junk Foods and 20 reasons to avoid them.

Research shows that 98% of College and University students feed mostly on Junk foods.

If you don’t know what junk food is then you have a reason to read the heading below.

What Are Junk Foods

Junk foods as a term is used to refer to foods high in calories, sugars and fats.

However, they are very low in vitamins, antioxidants and minerals.

Examples Of Junk Foods

Examples of junk foods include fish roll, chicken pie, doughnuts, fish pie, sausage roll, hot dogs, meat pie, bons, chips, soda, deep fried foods, chocolates.

Well in general, we refer anything that is made from white flour and refined white sugar as junk foods.

Although, some foods are referred to as junks at times based on the ways they are made or ingredients they are made from.

For example, Pizzas and hamburgers may be healthy depending on the ingredients they are made from as well as their preparation methods.

9 Reasons Why Students Eat Junk Foods

• Convenience

Most students as a result of their class schedule don’t have time to prepare good healthy meals for themselves even if they wanted to.

But looking closely into the issue, we have although discovered that some students don’t even know how to prepare meals.

This is really very appalling especially to the female category.

• Prize

Junk foods are usually made with cheap commodities ranging from salt, sugar and fats.

These ingredients can trigger pleasure centres in our brain.

This then makes us feel really good and encouraging us to keep buying and eating.

In fact some students see this as a cheaper quick way to feed.

• The brain requires a lot of energy.
• Junk foods are irresistible.
• They are more appealing to taste.
• They have been trained and brought up with eating junks from childhood.
• Some of them are sometimes rich with a reasonable amount of antioxidant which is good for the heart.
• To ease anxiety and get comfort
• Students love freedom of choice and have sought to choose this.

Although, despite the very many near to good reasons for consuming junks, I have compiled 20 good reasons why every student should avoid them.

20 Reasons Why You Should Avoid Junk Foods

The following are the 20 tops reasons why you should avoid junks as much as possible.

• Just as the name implies, it suggests something useless.
• Consuming junk foods can lead to chronic illness.
• It can lead to low self esteem. Eating healthy foods brings an unexplainable confidence.
• Consuming junk foods can lead to depression.
• It affects students performance in school as well as other extra curricular activities.
• Junk foods affects the brain function.
• It can cause digestive problems.
• Eating junk foods can lead to fatigue and weakness,
• Junk Food is Calories thick and poor in supplement.
• It leads to addiction. Research has shown that consuming junk foods alters brain activity in a manner similar to addictive drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
• It can lead to stroke
• Consuming junks enhances took decay.
• It can lead to Gastro Intestinal Problems.
• It creates bad impacts on our body.
• Heart problems are developing nowadays even in young age children because of junk foods.
• Obesity is becoming one of the biggest problems in the world due to high consumption of junk food.
• Creates high chances of diabetes.
• It creates disorder in eating habits and timing.
• It causes a type of ulcer referred to as peptic ulcer especially fast foods/junks like pizza, chips etc.
• Remember when I said junk food referred to as something useless?. Yes of course you do. Junk foods leads to wastage of money.

Therefore, this leads me to my next point.

What Students Should Do

Probably you are expecting me to give you a long list of things you should do.

Let me shock you by telling you that I am not going to do that.

The points I just raised on the reasons why you avoid junk foods is not to scare you but to sensitize you on the health problems of consuming junk foods.

However, if you avoid as much as possible junk foods, you will prevent the above reasons why you should not consume them at all.

of course, consuming 2500milligram of sodium according to research increases your chances of stroke by 34%.

Likewise research shows that if you have a weakness for potato chips, opt for low sodium or salt free varieties.

In fact, the ratio of healthy food to junk food in  your diet should be 100000000000000000000:10 (LOL). The mathematics scholars reading this understand what I am saying.

What I mean is that you should avoid junks as much as possible.

Furthermore, junks cause brain dysfunctions.

Therefore, as a student, are you supposed to be eating them?

Leave you answer to that question in the comment box.

Conclusion

Fast/junk foods are really harmful to students and adults despite the great and appealing tastes they have.

Therefore, don’t eat too much if you want a healthy life.

They are dangerous in several ways.

This article shows a few of the most dangerous effects of consuming junk foods but its not limited.

These foods are harmful just like slow poison.

#Be Careful.

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