Junk Food

Junk Food: Killing Ourselves with Generosity

Feeling hungry? How about pizza, burgers, French fries and cola, or chicken patties, deep-fried? Are you thirsty? Then how about a milk shake or soda? Perhaps you want something sweet? Candy bars and crisps should do the trick. The truth is we love fast food. We love it even more if it's deep fried in fat, full of salt, stacked with sugar and countless numbers not to mention flavored pulp.

There are over 300,000 fast food outlets in the US alone. Fast food, junk food, call it what you like, but it's taking over our world. Junk food is fast, convenient, sadly predictable and everywhere. Our nutrition comes in a box, our thirst is quenched in a carton. No matter where we are in the world it seems junk food is there to comfort us. We think we know what we're getting and we like it very much.

The only trouble is, junk food just does not feel the same way about us. Nutrition experts tell us that fast food is often high in calories, sodiu...