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Jun 12, 2024 · Background Anxiety and depression can seriously undermine mental health and quality of life globally. The consumption of junk foods, including ultra-processed foods, fast foods, unhealthy snacks, and sugar-sweetened beverages, has been linked to mental health. The aim of this study is to use the published literature to evaluate how junk food consumption may be associated with mental health ...
The dietician helped participants make adjustments to their diets, such as eating less junk food and more nutrient-rich foods such as produce, fish and legumes. While just 8 percent of the control group achieved remission, almost a third of the dietary intervention group did (BMC Medicine, Vol. 15, No. 23, 2017).
- Introduction
- What Happens to Our Bodies Shortly After We Eat Junk Foods?
- Long-Term Impacts of Junk Foods
- Tips For Being Healthy
- Summary
- Conflict of Interest
The world is currently facing an obesityA disorder where too much body fat increases the risk of health problems. epidemic, which puts people at risk for chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes. Junk food can contribute to obesity and yet it is becoming a part of our everyday lives because of our fast-paced lifestyles. Life can be jam-pack...
Food is made up of three major nutrients: carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. There are also vitamins and minerals in food that support good health, growth, and development. Getting the proper nutrition is very important during our teenage years. However, when we eat junk foods, we are consuming high amounts of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, whi...
If we eat mostly junk foods over many weeks, months, or years, there can be several long-term impacts on health (Figure 2). For example, high saturated fatA type of fat commonly eaten from animal sources such as beef, chicken and pork, which typically promotes the production of “bad” cholesterol in the body. intake is strongly linked with high leve...
One way to figure out whether a food is a junk food is to think about how processed it is. When we think of foods in their whole and original forms, like a fresh tomato, a grain of rice, or milk squeezed from a cow, we can then start to imagine how many steps are involved to transform that whole food into something that is ready-to-eat, tasty, conv...
In conclusion, we know that junk foods are tasty, affordable, and convenient. This makes it hard to limit the amount of junk food we eat. However, if junk foods become a staple of our diets, there can be negative impacts on our health. We should aim for high-fiber foods such as whole grains, vegetables, and fruits; meals that have moderate amounts ...
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Depression and anxiety are the most common mental health conditions worldwide, making them a leading cause of disability. 1 Even beyond diagnosed conditions, subclinical symptoms of depression and anxiety affect the wellbeing and functioning of a large proportion of the population. 2 Therefore, new approaches to managing both clinically diagnosed and subclinical depression and anxiety are needed.
Feb 1, 2021 · Introduction: Junk food is increasingly becoming a part of the regular diet for most adolescents in India. Rich in fat and salt content, such food is known to cause nutritional, affective ...
dents from four provinces in China conrmed the positive association between junk food and sugar beverage consumption and depression symptoms during screen time (Xu et al., 2020). Therefore, our research specically looks at junk food consumption and builds on previous studies by exploring the peer eects of junk food consumption on one’s depres-
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Dec 28, 2023 · A growing body of literature has demonstrated the impacts of peers’ dietary patterns on one’s dietary behaviors as well as the positive relationship between junk food consumption and depressive symptoms. However, researchers have not linked these two associations and paid scant attention to the mechanisms in the associations. This study examines how peers’ junk food consumption is ...
