“Keep that Burger Off or else I’ll stop giving you the pocket money”!

Most of us would have heard this from our screaming moms since childhood.

The fast food we eat today limitlessly has clutched our fitness. It is impossible for us to resist eating them knowing the fact that they are really harmful for us. But, what if we say, “don’t stop yourself from eating junk!” Wondering!!! Stick around to know more.

Andre F. Smith in his book, Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food defines junk food as, “those commercial products, including candy, bakery goods, ice cream, salty snacks, and soft drinks, which have little or no nutritional value but do have plenty of calories, salt, and fats. Fast foods are ready-to-eat foods served promptly after ordering.”

Undoubtedly, fast food has greatly impacted our eating habits. We do eat green vegetables and fruits, but as ‘stuffing’on the fast food, such as capsicum and mushrooms in Pizzas, strawberries in cakes or puddings, tomatoes and peas in chats or PavBhaji, etc. which becomes “zero” in their nutrient value after being processed.

Come on! We all are aware of the mess these fast foods create in our body.

They are truly a burden on our life.

A respiratory disorder named “popcorn lung” exploded in the workers at a popcorn factory in the late ’90s. It was caused by inhaling diacetyl – a chemical used to give bagged popcorn a buttery flavor. In 2007, an American popcorn addict Wayne Watson litigated the manufacturers after he developed popcorn lung.

So, just to remind you, here is a quick glimpse of the ill-effects of eating junk on our life.

• Adding inches to your waistline, increasing fat on your body.
• Eating junk food continuously for just 5 days can deteriorate your memory.
• Excess consumption of trans-fat may lessen the brain’s ability to control appetite and can cause hypothalamus.
• “What’s bad for your waist is also bad for your face”. Eating processed food can cause you to undergo BOTOX very early to treat premature aging signs like wrinkles.
• Just one slice of pizza makes you consume 275 calories and contains 22 percent of your daily saturated fat.
• Food rich in saturated fat can cause you digestion problems for lifetime.
• Regular Mood Swings, fatigue and depression are also the resultants of excess processed food intake. 

The list of harmful effects of eating fast food or processed food does not end here! 

But here’s something ‘delicious’ for you.What if we ask you to eat JUNK without any worries? Yes. Here are a few swaps for you to satisfy your fast food cravings without compromising your fitness. Have a look. 

• If you love munching, crack the Peanuts and munch as much you want!Peanuts are rich in protein and fiber. And good news is that these can help you in fit back into your favorite jeans. But avoid taking salted peanuts.

• For the ‘chaat’ and ‘bhelpuri’ lovers, sprinkle a little of that same chat masala lemon and pepper powder on your fav fruits you’ll forget the taste of those harmful street food.

• If you’re candy lover, counter your craving with dried fruit alternatives, such as apricots or dates. Try twisting their taste as per your liking and enjoy crunchy- munchy pastime full of fiber and minerals like potassium.

• Instead of apple-pie or apple pudding, try baked apples. Just bake an apple and top it with a spoonful of yoghurt and sprinkle a little cinnamon. Enjoy the same pie taste without the fatty butter.

• Avoid eating 2-min or microwave popcorns from now. Try your own organic popped stove corns from now! Popcorns can be a vegetable if you take it sans extra toppings!

• Instead of French “Fires” start taking baked potato fries at home. Quick to cook, tasty to eat and fresh to health. Sweet potatoes contain less bad fat and provide beta-carotene.

• To fizzle out your soda cravings, switch to a glass of water with a touch of lemon.You’ll enjoy a glass high in vitamin C and flavonoids to keep you fresh and disease-free.

So, what’s your favorite FAST FOOD now???

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Let me first clarify the difference between real food and processed food.

Real foods are in their original form. Like ripe mangoes directly plucked from tree and eat.

Similarly all types of vegetables, fruits, cereals, pulses, leaves, roots, nuts, seed everything are real food. Even after cooking and preparing packaged foods like pickle are also real foods. Mechanically prepared foods are all real.

Then what are called as processed food. All chemically prepared foods are termed as Processed Food. Foods processed with chemicals and adding artificial color, textures etc are all processed.

Some Example of processed foods is Pizza, Burger, Roll, Cake, Pasta, Cookies etc.

Harmful Chemicals use in Processed Food:

Processed foods are flooded with harmful chemicals. All are highly carcinogenic and increase the cancer causing chance in our body.

However recently” Maggie” found with high dose harmful chemicals in its noodles. The Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) found in Maggie is a dangerous chemical which damaged our kidney. You might discipline yourself and never take alcoholic drink but a regular intake of Maggie, it may delicious food, can damage your kidney as like alcohol. What you are going to do then?

Saccharin used in processed food in the place of sugar is highly carcinogenic. Preservatives like BHA-Butylated Hydroxyanisole and BHT- Butylated Hydrozyttoluene will damaged the human nervous system. Little excess the amount of TBHQ- Tertiary Butylhydroguinone will cause the death of the human.

All the processed food manufacturing companies claim that their foods are safe but do these free from chemicals? The answer is no, more or less every processed food has contained deadly chemicals. Why we eating processed food with so much of interest? At what cost?

Reason of eating processed food:

All processed foods are very delicious foods in taste. These foods trigger our saliva to come out from its smell. This is not because we need the food but for the persuasive techniques use by the food companies. They are using the techniques called “Hyper-rewarding” in this technique it influences our brain to over eat.

Another technique is widely used in the food industry is the “Sensory- Specific-Satiety”. This is very dangerous formula it can make you addicted to certain processed food. That’s the reason why so many kids and children are addicted to the potato chips and other processed foods.

Nutritional Values:

What you think how much nutritious is the processed food. These contain only refined carbohydrates and fats. No protein, no vitamins, no minerals, they fool people with synthetic vitamin and minerals but you cannot make fool your body with these synthetic vitamins & minerals.

Our science is not developed so much that we can replace the natural vitamins, minerals and antioxidant. Nothing better than the nature provide us to live. Go for real natural food that’s the only way of getting all real usable carbohydrates, protein, fat, minerals, vitamins and antioxidants.

Stomach is the mother of all diseases. Irregular bowl movement will cause constipation, piles and many more diseases. For best bowl movement fiber is the excellent food supplement found in natural real foods. No processed foods have fiber in their products. This leads you to indigestion and many more other diseases.

Foods are good in its natural form, natural color and natural texture why processed it to make artificial.

If you are a person who live by eating all these processed foods. You need to choose one thing between life and death.

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