Junk food

2. Presentation By
M. Owais Raees
M. Junaid
Usman Cheema
Junk Foods and its Harmful effects

3. Junk food is a term of food containing high
levels of calories from sugar or fat with
little protein and vitamins.
What is Junk Food ?

4. JUNK FOOD VARIETIES
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5. Some Popular Food Chains

6. Why we give preference to Junk
Food?

7. Never
Once
Twice
More than
once
Everyday
28 %
44 %
6%
8 %
14 %
14 %
According to Gulf
News it is shown
eating habits of
different groups
and as a result 72
% of these groups
eat fast food at
least once in a
week
How often in week people
eat fast-food ?

8. Studies about Junk Foods
 According to the Study it is shows that 60% of
peoples are having diabetes and obesity
problems.
 Studies in rat population shows that when they
overeat these junk foods they refused to eat
healthier foods.

9. Side Effect of Sugar?
 Regular use of sugar can overload your liver.
 Sugar can cause diabetes and metabolic
problems.
 Fat is increase due to sugar.
 Sugar can damage your heart.
 Sugar and alcohol have same
effects on our body.
 Regular use of Sugar can increase
blood pressure.

10. Why Junk Food Is So Attractive?
 Junk food attraction is so high because of its
simplicity.
 They are easy to prepare and are very tasty.
 Junk foods such as potato wafers do not even
need cooking or heating.

11. Time Factor
 You prefer to eat them
when you watch TV.
 You save yourself a lot of
hassles and time when
you are in a hurry eating
pizzas and burgers as
they are served at your
door step hot and ready to
eat

12. Taste Factor
 If time constraint is one reason that pushes you to
eating junk food, great taste also causes the
irresistibility factor and you keep on going.
 Once you are caught in junk food addiction, you
find it hard to think about the loss of nutrition junk
food pushes you into.
 Home and Restaurant Foods prepared out side
the foods have a great attraction for food buffs .

13.  Potato , Samosas, French Fries etc. are the
great examples of Perfect Taste factor of junk
foods.

14. Advertising Factor
 One estimate tells us Fritto Lays is selling a
Billion bags of Cheetos per year. It is an
altogether different story that junk food
advertising has a major role in this .
 Chocolates like Kitkat and Dairy Milk gives the
lusty factor in advertisement which is the key to
Attraction.

15. Incomplete Nutrition label
 Food Companies try not to show the nutrition
Table specially sugar in order to keep the profits
coming.
 They in fact not give the complete information of
amount energy a person consuming
 Sugars are not labeled specially in bars and
chocolates.

16. Interview
 Are you into the Problem associated to junk food?
 What your opinion Regarding this?
 What do you think about the harmful effects that
can cause in your body?
 Are you trying to get rid of this problem?

17. Harmful Effects

18. Lack of energy:
 This is known as a short-term adverse effect
resulting from eating junk foods.
 As junk foods don't provide you with essential
nutrients, even though they can be very much
sufficing, you feel weakened.
 Consuming deficient nutrients
could be as a supplement.

19. Poor concentration:
 These are traced to affect in immediate and medium
term periods.
 When you have a sumptuous junk meal rich in oil you
feel drowsy and fail to concentrate.
 Over sustained periods of junk food eating, blood
circulation drops due to fat accumulation.
 Lack of vital oxygen, nutrients and proteins
particularly can stale your grey (brain) cells
temporarily

20. Harmful Diseases
 Vitamin Deficiencies
 Low Body Resistance
 Obesity
 Hypertension ( Increased Blood Pressure)
 Increased Cholesterol
 Osteoporosis
 Heart Attacks(Asthma)

21. Side-effects of treatments(If
taken)
 Surgeries can increases the chances of infection
and diseases.
 Ulcers and intestinal problem can be triggered.
 There are chances that fat come up again to

22. AVOID THE HABIT OF JUNK
FOOD
 Try to understand that junk food cause loss of
health and stamina
 This habit would eventually reduces the power of
immune system of your body.
 These things eventually comes into the addiction
and diseases would prevail.

23. Changes that must need
 Eat a variety of nutrient-rich foods .
 Enjoy plenty of whole grains, fruits and
vegetables .
 Maintain a healthy weight .
 Eat moderate portions .
 Eat regular meals .
 Reduce, don't eliminate certain foods