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This shocking picture, with its piles of oven chips, mini rolls and tubs of icecream, represents just how much junk food one child in the UK consumes in a year.
It is perhaps unsurprising then that today's children have been labeled the 'junk food generation', with a third of youngsters aged five to 13 already considered obese.
Junk food mountain: The astonishing amount of rubbish one child eats every year
Seeded on Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:32 AM EDT
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I'm really surprised at how many of the people commenting think this stuff is health food! Granted, this is in England and I'm in America, so maybe British food doesn't have all the additives and chemicals that their American counterparts have, but still.
Chicken and fish are healthy. Chicken and fish that are emulsified with chemicals, coated with fatty batter and breading, and fried are not. Biscuits and pastries are junk food no matter how you look at it. Tasty, but junky. Are these "whole wheat" cereals similar to the ones here in the States - you know, Apple Jacks with "whole grains?" They're still loaded with HFCS and other kinds of sugar. I'm guessing that a meat pie is similar to a pot pie - delicious meat, but fat-laden, artery-clogging crusts and sauces.
I will admit that I'm not sure why things like cheese and milk (assuming that they're organic, but I think all those hormones and antibiotics in American products are banned in Europe) are on there, though. Maybe just the amounts that are consumed? All things in moderation, after all.
But this is what gets me with articles like this - supposedly, NOBODY feeds their kids like this. Then where are these numbers coming from?
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#1 - Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:17 AM EDTI don't get the dairy part as junk either. Unless as you've said it is filled with hormones and other crap. In Canada that is not allowed like it is in the States. The rest of it is garbage food. Empty calories loaded with sugars and fats with very little nutritional value.
Sometimes, on the odd occasion I will give my kids some of that stuff. As a general rule they don't get junk foods at all unless I make them myself. At least that way I know it is not loaded with chemicals and other additives. (all of my kids are thin as bean poles, but also active and healthy)
Sadly, I do know a whole lot of parents that do indeed feed their kids all of that as a regular diet. Their kids are fat and unhealthy. Allergies, breathing problems and a whole host of other health issues. That stuff is garbage plain and simple and will destroy the body.
It is cheap and easy which is probably the biggest problem with why it is so popular.
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