junk food-final draft

Junk food is defined as food that is unhealthy and have low nutritional value(Family Joural 2005).Junk food have been related to many problems like health and behaviour.The problems seems more serious among the teenagers. Statistic shows that most of the foods consumed at home by 12-14 years old Australian Children consist a lot of fat and sugar more than recommended intake (Australian Nutrition Journal 2004).Teenagers usually get their junk food from school canteen.So,an issue have arise whether the selling of junk food should be banned or not?I absolutely agree it should be banned as it caused health problem,triggers behavioural problem and leads to litter problem.

One of the reason is that Junk food caused health problems.It contains a lot of fat,salt and sugar(Family Journal 2005).All this ingredients can cause obesity.Another ingredient in junk food that is found to be a threat is chemical addictives.Most of this substances can cause behavioural problems like hyperactive and poor concentration(Family Journal 2005).In addition,childhood obesity can lead to future cases of heart disease,osteoarthtitis and some cancers.

Students that have large proportion of junk food in their food intake will not managed to get nutrients they need for healthy developement and growth,and thus their learning potential is reduced(Caputo 2005).More worsen to this fact is most youngster nowadays have less participate in physical activities.Statistic show 18% of Australian school students never involved in physical activities and 40& only involves in weekend(Weekend News 2005).This will also lead to a health problems as been stated earlier.

Next,fast food packaging is the majority contribution to litter problems(Family Journal 2005).If sells of junk food is banned school groundsmen does not have to spend so long cleaning the grounds and thus they can concentrate on maintanence project which benefit the school itself(Green 2005).Also,the litter from junk food have caused the cleaning cost to increase also it reflects a bad image of the community.

In a nut shell,I strongly believed that the selling of junk food should be banned as this step can help to reduce many problems like health,behaviour and litter.Students can improve their self and also the environment if they can cut down their in take on junk food.