Blogpost 5: Advantage and Disadvantage of Junk Food

• Fast food, is convenient and a tasty addition to a diet, can have serious health and social effects. People should learn to choose fast food carefully and remember the joy of eating good foods.

Fast food has advantages but when is it healthy to eat fast food? I found an article entitled "Healthy Fast Food" by  Maya W. Paul from the site helpguide.org. The article talks about the healthier choices at fast food to check the guides show in nutritional content. The author gives several tips for making choices. Like Special Order, this is the side dish or vagetables in your main dishes. Eat mindfully, to pay attention. Undress your food , by choosing item and you can control what you put in that food. According to the author,  "fast food is low in nutrition and high in trans fat, saturated fat, sodium, and calories".

I agree with the author. Fast Food has increase nowadys, especially to teens. Not all fast food is bad to our health. Some of it offers more on vegetarian. Well, it seems that we are tempted to eat junk food especially sweets.

I found another article entitled "Fast food raises risk of childhood allergies andasthma; fruit lowers risk", by David Gutierrez from the site natural news.com.The articles talks about, 39% of teenagers are higher risk in severe asthma. Those food are known to affect the immune system. In teenagers, fast food has higher risk of symptoms of all three conditions.

According to author  "If the associations between fast foods and the symptom prevalence of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema is causal, then the findings have major public health significance owing to the rising consumption of fast foods globally".

I agree to the author. I found out that eating three or more weekly servings of fast food is linked to the severity of allergic asthma, eczema, and rhinitis among children in the developed world