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Junk food is an informal term for food that is of little nutritional value and often high in fat, sugar, and/or calories.
It is widely believed that the term was coined by Michael Jacobson, director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, in 1972.
Junk foods typically contain high levels of calories from sugar or fat with little protein, vitamins or minerals. Common junk foods include salted snack foods, gum, candy, sweet desserts, fried fast food, and carbonated beverages.
A study by Paul Johnson and Paul Kenny at the Scripps Research Institute (2008) suggested that junk food consumption alters brain activity in a manner similar to addictive drugs like cocaine or heroin. After many weeks with unlimited access to junk food, the pleasure centers of rat brains became desensitized, requiring more food for pleasure. After the junk food was taken away and replaced with a healthy diet, the rats starved for two weeks instead of eating nutritious fare. A 2007 British Journal of Nutrition study found that mothers who eat junk food during pregnancy increased the likelihood of unhealthy eating habits in their children.
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Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells in an effort to produce energy, maintain life, or stimulate growth.
Historically, people secured food through two methods: hunting and gathering, and agriculture. Today, most of the food energy consumed by the world population is supplied by the food industry.
Food safety and food security are monitored by agencies like the International Association for Food Protection, World Resources Institute, World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization, and International Food Information Council. They address issues such as sustainability, biological diversity, climate change, nutritional economics, population growth, water supply, and access to food.
The right to food is a human right derived from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), recognizing the "right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food", as well as the "fundamental right to be free from hunger".
to all the free range humans and organic life forms everywhere hold your forks up with solidarity remember you vote with your wallet your dollar bills your ballots alone its just a just a whisper but together you cant stop it
omg its the gmo's from the labs and tubes where the fast foods grow if you are what you eat then I'm a UFO hope to god my body still can decompose cause I'm biodegradable and your biodegradable and you'll find that the mind is highly persuadable
doesn't matter if you came through the canal or you're cesarean if you're an omnivore or maybe more a vegetarian you choose to eat an animal a vegetable a mineral eat what you are it's never been more literal
come chemical come dumbin' down the food chain come dumb us down whose super power seed grain come monsanto come with your new campaign all the politicians sing along with the refrain:
no more junk in my food we want it slow not fast like they grew in the past with green dream coming growing up in the youth please no more junk in my food
then mcdonalds got a farm gm gm gmo and on that farm he had a chicken and a cow but what they do now you really don't want to know why must we label it organic when that's the way we've been growing it for ten thousand years. i think the farm factory should label honestly to admit what they add genetically and chemically is there a bio engineer in the house is there a bio engineere i need some help with this label how do you say this? calcium poly phosphate? is this nutritional claim a fairytale or a fable