Junk Food! Junk Food! Junk Food!

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Unhealthy food, known to us as Junk Food, has been rapidly taking over our food life.

Since the creation of junk food such as packet chips, donuts, ice cream etc, the average produced size is now 30% larger! In other words, we are eating more junk and junk and junk, and has become the norm. Consequently to the size increase, one muffin may already take up half our daily recommended consumption of calories! Now that is something to worry about. That muffin will not last you an entire day of work, not to mention pigging out at home afterwards. This is part of the reason as to why the number of obese Australians are slowly increasing yearly, as each serving we consume is expanding due to our wants for more. 

Studies conducted in 2016 by the CSIRO surveying over 80,000 people showed that employees who bought their own lunch tend to purchase food on the unhealthier side due to the cheap price and meal size, and employees who were given set lunches were more on the healthier side as their meals were managed and monitored by their company. 

Now after considering these facts, is it the problem that we eat too much junk food in terms of the number of items we eat, or is the portion size of junk food too big, which leads to obesity, and hence the need to diet?

Junk Food portions need to be reduced.

Many people out there do not know their limits. What limits you ask? How much calories are contained in a single serving of junk food, and how much you are recommended to consume daily. This is a very important factor to losing weight, as the more overload of calories, the less fat you will actually burn off, as you are gaining more fat than you can get rid of. Just because a chip packet is a certain size, it does not mean that that entire packet is considered one serving and you are required to consume the entire packet. It is designed that way to for marketing purposes, to attract your attention to purchase that particular product. One serving may actually be 5 chip pieces out of the 200 in the packet, in other words you may be gaining 40 times the actual allowable calorie intake. You're not to blame for not knowing, but you are to blame for not taking care of your health and in the end seeking for medical attention on obesity.  

In my personal opinion, the junk food size should be reduced, as people only feel satisfied and "full" after consuming the entire item, and hence it would be beneficial to the health if not as much junk food is consumed. This way, obesity levels will decrease and the overall health and mortality rate will most likely increase. Less people will be burdened with the need to diet, when they could be living just fine with the normal and recommended amount of junk food consumption. 

Feel free to read this following article regarding junk food in Australia and how it has affected our life. Please click here to access the article.

-Jenny