Junk Foods, Their Ill Effects on Human Health and Measures of Their Regulation

Abstract

The aims of present study were to elucidate the ill effects of junk foods on human\rhealth and the measures of reduction of their effects. The junk foods are used by most of peoples due\rto their tastes and flavours and advertisements otherwise these food items are not good for health.\rThe intake of junk foods (zero nutritional values) leads to several disease to different body parts and\rorgans like teeth and skin, liver, kidney and heart. Some studies concluded that prolonged use of\rthese items can cause cancers or brain disease. It has been revealed that consumptions of junk foods\rhave influences on body similar to that of drugs; consumers may be addicted to these food items like\raddiction of cocaine. To decline the ill effects of these foods on human health, we should avoid these\ritems and should prefer the home made and healthy foods, fruits and vegetables. We should choose\rthe diet or food having proportioned carbohydrate, protein, vitamins, minerals, and water. We should\rfollow precautions and prepare food in such manner so that it vitamin remain in food because most\rof them vitamins are resolved in water and destroyed in heat. Government should ban the junk food\rproducing industries or control the production of such foods by legislation, by imposing tax, by\rawaring the peoples about bad effects of same foods.