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IEEE Spectrum, 2013
Most of us love food-many of us love food a little too much. Hence the dangerous rates of morbid obesity in the United States and elsewhere, an epidemic known as globesity. Those extra pounds generally come from the overconsumption of soft drinks, snack foods, and fast foods. The massive popularity of these so-called junk foods (a phrase that was added
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Most of us love food-many of us love food a little too much. Hence the dangerous rates of morbid obesity in the United States and elsewhere, an epidemic known as globesity. Those extra pounds generally come from the overconsumption of soft drinks, snack foods, and fast foods. The massive popularity of these so-called junk foods (a phrase that was added
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Junk food revolution or the cola-colonization
Therapeutische Umschau, 2000Existierte früher die Not der Menschen, sich Nahrung zu suchen, besteht heutzutage die Notwendigkeit sich für oder gegen Nahrungsmittel zu entscheiden. In den westlichen Industrienationen konnte unter diesen Überflußbedingungen sehr bald beobachtet werden, daß Menschen anders essen, als sie sich ernähren sollten. Das war früher anders!
P, Horinger, R, Imoberdorf
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
The term ‘junk food’ has no legal definition and its use by campaigners gives a misleading impression of how much food and drink will be affected by government proposals in the Childhood Obesity Strategy. Policies that restrict ‘junk food’ will actually restrict HFSS food (high in fat, sugar and salt) as defined by the Nutrient Profiling Model which ...
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The term ‘junk food’ has no legal definition and its use by campaigners gives a misleading impression of how much food and drink will be affected by government proposals in the Childhood Obesity Strategy. Policies that restrict ‘junk food’ will actually restrict HFSS food (high in fat, sugar and salt) as defined by the Nutrient Profiling Model which ...
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Junk food concept: seconds out
International Journal of Obesity, 2017Abstract not ...
Milani, G. P +3 more
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The impact of junk foods on the adolescent brain
Birth Defects Research, 2017Adolescence is a significant period of physical, social, and emotional development, and is characterized by prominent neurobiological changes in the brain. The maturational processes that occur in brain regions responsible for cognitive control and reward seeking may underpin excessive consumption of palatable high fat and high sugar “junk” foods ...
Amy C. Reichelt, Michelle M. Rank
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2016
The word “vitamin” comes from the same root as “vital,” meaning life. Vitamins are necessary for the proper functioning of our bodies (Zimmer, 2013). Since we realized they could eradicate many diseases, like scurvy or rickets, vitamin use has grown tremendously. Governments passed laws to fortify processed food staples — like cereals, flour, and mixes
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The word “vitamin” comes from the same root as “vital,” meaning life. Vitamins are necessary for the proper functioning of our bodies (Zimmer, 2013). Since we realized they could eradicate many diseases, like scurvy or rickets, vitamin use has grown tremendously. Governments passed laws to fortify processed food staples — like cereals, flour, and mixes
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Pediatrics, 1989
I hear a lot of parents talking about not allowing their babies to have cookies or other so-called "junk food." I say, there's no such thing as junk food. There are junk diets, but not junk food. If you give your child a chocolate cookie that's OK, it's not junk food. If you give him nothing but chocolate cookies all day, that's a junk diet. but if you
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I hear a lot of parents talking about not allowing their babies to have cookies or other so-called "junk food." I say, there's no such thing as junk food. There are junk diets, but not junk food. If you give your child a chocolate cookie that's OK, it's not junk food. If you give him nothing but chocolate cookies all day, that's a junk diet. but if you
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Blindness Caused by a Junk Food Diet
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2019Background: Popular media have highlighted the risks for poor cardiovascular health, obesity, and cancer associated with junk food, but poor nutrition can also permanently damage the nervous system, particularly vision. Objective: To alert clinicians of visio risks associated with a diet restricted to junk food. Case Report: A 14-year-old boy presented
Harrison, Rhys +3 more
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Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food
2006Eating junk food and fast food is a great all-American passion. American kids and grownups love their candy bars, Big Macs and supersized fries, Doritos, Twinkies, and Good Humor ice cream bars. The disastrous health effects from the enormous appetite for these processed fat- and sugar-loaded foods are well publicized now.
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Junking tropical forests for junk food?
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2016Janice Ser Huay Lee +2 more
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