Nonfiction

 **Nonfiction**

"One-third of American Diet is Junk Food and Soft Drinks: we're malnourished and obease at the same time" ​"Meaty Questions" "20 Things you didn't know about Sugar"

Summary: I'm sure it's greatly known by now, but the majority of America is obease. The Journal of Food Composition and Analysis discovered that one third of American's calories come from junk food. Soft drinks take up seven percent of junk food, alone. Because foods link to diseases, diabetes and chronic disease are on an arise. Everything leads back to terrible eatting habits. Hot Dogs, sugar, and other unhealthy foods are eatten everyday on a daily basis and it's only getting worse. Americans need to be better educated about the harm they are doing to their body that will effect them today, tomorrow, and throughout their lifetime.  Reflection: To me the Articles were very interesting and alarming. Some of the information I already knew but it really put things into perspective. Before reading the article I was aware of the "junk food diet." Now, post reading, I know the percents and in a way it scares me. It's very difficult to understand how we can keep moving forward with this unusual lifestyle. How can one know they are putting harmful foods into their diet and not respond to the situation? Even worse, not exercise it off? I know that some people don't see an active lifestyle fun or enjoyable, but truthfully it's important they start.

I know and understand the situations with junk food and the problems it causes, but I don't believe in junk food banning. It seems unnecessary to take something away from others who don't abuse it. But either way, in the long run it won't help anyone. Once something is taken away, and then it gets in their reach again, they are guaranteed to take it. And who knows how much. Instead, Americans need to be educated. Yeah they were taught in second grade.... but come on! They need better education than that. And it needs to start young. Parents need to inforce good eatting habits from birth, because lets face it, they become HABITS. If it's not taught young, or the reverse is taught, America will keep pushing the scale down in the wrong direction.