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    The constant consumption of junk food can cause type 2 diabetes. When people eat a lot of junk food they are consuming in excess sugar and fats because this meal is full of it and high in calories, if people eat it constantly they tend to gain a lot of weight because of the amount fat they are putting into their body, this leads to obesity, worst of all nowadays a lot of parents allow their children to consume this kind of food and 15% of children suffer from childhood obesity at a very young age

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    The article “How Junk Food Can End Obesity was written by David H. Freedman and published in The Atlantic. The article is about how healthier junk food could actually have more of an effect on losing weight than wholesome food. Furthermore, the article goes more in-depth about the health benefits and difference between the wholesome food and junk foods. The title contradicts itself in many ways. The author talks about the problems with obesity but says that junk food as a whole could possibly

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    for fast food is spreading in Canada day by day and people visit these restaurants more often than anywhere else. Not only in Canada, fast food has emerged as a threat to people’s lifestyles in whole world. With the escalation in Canada’s population, many businesses are escalating too. One of them is fast food business which is expanding more rapidly than any other business. And as people’s lives are getting more busy, they are bending towards these fast foods for their survival. Junk food has become

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    Eat Junk! The Ethical Dilemma of the Dollar Menu "When you only have a dollar to spend and you have two kids to feed, either you go to the market and try to find something that's cheap or just go straight through a drive-thru and get two small hamburgers for them and 'okay, here. Eat them.' This is what's gonna fill her up, not that one single item at the market." ( Food Inc., Kenner, 2008) Families around the United States go through this dilemma on a daily basis. Fast food and junk food are

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    In the article of How Junk Food Can End Obesity, David Freedman, the contributor editor at the Atlantic and Inc. Magazines, lays out a “they say” that then frames his argument. He states that making processed food healthier can contribute to the battle of the obese in our society. Freedman also says that the food these companies are cooking are making people sick and how it is destructive to an individual’s health. For instance, in the reading, Freedman states a quote from Michael Pollan, a journalism

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    energy-rich foods. And undeniably, this love affair has led to an obesity epidemic. In spite of the evidence against processed food, however, there are some who believe the problem may hold the key to the solution. David Freedman, author of “How Junk Food Could End Obesity,” criticizes Michael Pollan for his argument in support of unprocessed, local foods due its impracticality. Freedman’s criticism is based on the idea that “It makes a lot more sense to look for small, beneficial changes in food than it

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    mechanism that leads to either the destruction of our surroundings or new concepts in ways to make the situation better. In Michael Moss’s The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food, he reports on the growing obesity epidemic in the United States as a result of food manufacturers “conscious effort… to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive” (Moss 262). Whereas, in An Elephant Crackup?, by Charles Siebert, we assimilate the fact that “elephant behavior is entirely congruent

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    Schools shouldn’t be allowed to sell junk food for numeral reasons because it affects students negatively. Teenagers are more than likely the main ones affected by junk food. Students in school should be learning good nutritional choices. If junk food was to be passed out freely during school then everyone would be so unhealthy. Junk food negatively affects our lives in many ways such as obesity, diabetes, distractions in class, and heart, liver and kidney disease. Obesity is a main concern in

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    Many school in the United States have junk food in them for either fundraiser for sport or for the school benefits. Critics would say that school should sell junk food. I say they shouldn’t for the health of the kids. Junk food leads to childhood obesity. According to “Center for Disease Control” published in August 2015. The percent of children with obesity in the United States and has more than tripled since 1970s. Children with obesity are

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    Junk Food should be banned from all the Elementary and High Schools in the United States because it leads to Health Problems “Despite limited empirical evidence, there is growing concern that junk food availability in schools has contributed to the childhood obesity epidemic” (datar). Considerable attention has been focused on schools in an attempt to identify policy levers that will help reverse the obesity epidemic. Junk food is very dangerous towards people’s health and can lead to many harmful

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