Why healthy should be more preferred over junk? by Siddha

Why healthy should be more preferred over junk?

Introduction

I chose this topic because I love healthy food and I realised more people are eating junk food than healthy food. Even my BFF was opposing against healthy food. Also one day in class our teacher had said “no chips allowed “and everyone was saying that they will get what they want. This essay will show us how junk food can harm you.

My mission statement: Think healthy food should be more preferred than junk because,

1. Junk food is bad for you

2. Healthy food will help you

3. Junk food makes you fat

Subtopic 1: Junk food is bad for you.

Chips, candies, pizzas, fries, nuggets etc., are not good for your health.

These types of food are known as junk food. They are foods that are high in calories and low in nutrients and usually contain harmful synthetic chemicals. Most junk foods are processed food that is bad for our health.

Five surprising reasons on how junk food can do the harm to your body!

1.           It can cause memory and learning problems. (It can affect the hippocampus area of the brain which is associated with memory and special recognition.

2.           Increases the risk of dementia. (A study conducted at Brown university shows that too much fatty food and sweets can substantially increase insulin levels in the body). Insulin helps in the transportation of glucose to fuel the body. Insulin also helps in carrying signals between nerve cells and forming memories if our body contains too much insulin we want able to:

Think, recall, and create memories.

3.           Excess consumption of trans fats found in fried foods can send mixed signals to the brain which makes it process what  you have eaten  and how hungry you are is probable why we end up over-eating

4.           It can cause chemical changes that can lead to depression. A study conducted at the University of Montreal on mice showed that they suffered withdrawal symptoms after their regular junk food diet was discontinued. In humans, these withdrawal symptoms can lead to the inability to deal with stress, make you feel depressed and eventually you would turn back to these foods to comfort yourself handle those feelings. Soon, you may be caught in a vicious cycle even before you know it.

5.           It makes you impatient and can cause uncontrollable cravings. (eating a sugary cupcake or doughnut may temporarily spike your blood sugar levels making you feel happy and satisfied but as soon as they return to normal you are left feeling all the more irritable.)

Subtopic 2: How healthy food is good for you

Healthy foods are packed with nutrients; therefore, the foods help you grow and make you very athletic. When you eat lots of junk your body is taking in a lot of calories, but how much ever healthy food you eat you will not become fatter. Did you know even when adults eat lots of junk their arteries or veins get blocked with fat. The blood is not able to flow through your body and therefore you end up in the hospital. Healthy foods carry vitamins, for example -- carrots have vitamin a which is good for your eyes. Energy is needed in the body and healthy foods are mostly the products broken down to fuel the body to work. Sometimes junk gives energy but the artificial products in the junk foods harm you.

Subtopic 3: How junk food can make you fat!

On an average day people gain 3-4 calories. Even in America the people are becoming fatter. From 1940s this problem is hard to overcome, once you start eating junk you never stop. Just like smoking. Junk foods are so horrible that when you become extremely fat you need loads of medication to get better that you can take injections.

Did you know that sumo-wrestlers are so fat that every  month they have to take injections to stay alive!!!

Counter arguments

Counter against why junk food is bad

Sugar is good for you because in the right amount it will give you lots of energy to play sports at any time of the day.

We say pizza is a junk item but it can actually be good for you, because it has bread, cheese and tomato sauce.

Ice cream is tasty as well as delicious. You have milk which is good for growing children.

Blue m&m’s actually reduce damage caused by spine injuries.

Popcorn has very high levels of polyphenols. It also has antioxidants that can protect against heart disease and certain cancers!

Counter examples:

Against why healthy foods can harm you

Examples:

Ø  The white tuna fish

Ø  The light tuna

Ø  Cinnamon

Ø  Nutmeg

Ø  Coffee

Ø  Liver cruciferour vegetables

Ø  Brazil nuts

Subtopic Three Counter

There are few junk foods that can make you thin!

Here are a few examples

Ø  Fruit loops

Ø  Lay’s oven baked

Ø  Desert pepper black bean dip

Ø  Newman-oats biscuits

Ø  Best chocolate candy-mars pretzel m and m’s

Ø  Wrigley life saver gummies

Ø  Bagel bites-best pizza snack

Ø  Dre-ida-best French fries

Ø  Breyer natural vanilla-best ice cream

Ø  Healthy food that makes you fat are:

Ø  The ginger –orange rum cocktail

Ø  Sweet potato pancakes

Ø  Protein pancakes

Ø  Taco salad

Ø  Joe’s novelty breakfast food

My counter-counter argument

(to shoot down the counter arguments)

Counter 1 shoot down

You may think that sugar, pizza, ice cream and other junk foods could be healthy in a few ways but these items are more unhealthy. Examples: Sugar might give you energy but it is bad for health and it causes cancer and Blue M and M’s might reduce your spine injuries but it also causes bad effects to the heart because of the artificial colours and the chocolate makes you fat. You may think ice-cream  is  healthy  because of the milk but you are wrong  because the milk gets mixed with loads of sugar and ice which has no nutrition.

Counter 2 shoot down

Healthy foods like tuna may be bad for your health but only when you eat too much of it. Like almonds are good for you but when you eat to many of them it harms you. Even a little junk can harm you. It can also cause certain diseases or intestine problems. Now think how much junk food you eat in a year, isn’t it way too much, the cavemen ate so much healthy food that they could have survived for 150 years if they did not get killed by wild animals, shouldn’t we eat like them?

Counter 3 shoot down

There are very few junk foods that can make you thin but most of them make you fat. If we eat healthy food in the right quantity, we would never be fat.

Conclusion

The world is changing quickly, everyday people are gaining 3-4 pounds. People should realize this problem before it is too late. Don’t you want people to be thin and slim? Well all you must do is eat more healthy food and live a longer and happier life. So what are you waiting for, go tell people to eat healthy.