JUNK FOOD VERSUS HEALTHY FOOD
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This paper is a brief study on issues relating to junk food and healthy food. Healthy diet consists in consuming nutritionally balanced foods. Unhealthy diet includes many high processed foods which are rich in calories but low in nutrients. Consuming of junk food is responsible along with other factors such as pollution, stress for increasing of disease risk and obesity. Healthy diet contributes to minimizing the risk of illness. Junk foods contain refined sugar, saturated fats, salt, artificial sweeteners and additives wich are unhealthy for human body. Healty foods are rich in mineral substances, vitamins, antioxidants, fibers, proteins with high biological value, omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids which are important for human health. The manily reasons for which junk food are sometimes preferred is that that they are often cheaper then healty foods and are saled as ready to eat or as conveniences foods that need a little time for cooking or preparing them.
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