Entry #7: Fresh
Junk Food
Junk Food
Teenagers should eat healthy and energetic food. Junk food including fast food burgers, fries etc looks good to eat, but these things are not healthy. First of all, these things are full of calories and full of fat. They are full of sugar, fat and salt. Fries and chips are cooked in oil and they are deep-fried. So you can imagine how much oil it has in them. Junk food usually has very few nutrients and a lot of fat, sugar and salt. Your body can often get too much of these and so eating junk food on a regular basis can make you unhealthy. Some experts refer to junk food as "empty calories" meaning that the food contains lots of calories that are not particularly helpful to your body. Thus, by eating this food you are killing yourself and making you off-colour.
Not only is it low in calories and makes you unhealthy, you also may become overweight and full of fat. When you eat a burger, pizza, chips, or drink a coke; it has so much fat that you will end up having cholesterol in your body. Teenagers nowadays are very self-conscious, and they worry about how they look. They don't want to get it .
overweight and mess up their bodies in their teens, so they should consider not eating junk food for their bodies. Therefore, eating junk causes your body to become obese.
Lastly, many teenagers are suffering from many diseases because of junk food. Preventing teenage obesity is a complex issue. The teen years are times of intense peer pressure: extra weight can lead to social demands and teasing, while the perceived ideal body image, especially for girls, creates unrealistic expectations.
This entry is not about the film Fresh at all.
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