Sentences with phrase «of junk food which»

Consumption of high amount of junk foods which have high calories content but no nutritional value

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Buffett and 3G — both of which are highly respected for their investing acumen — are doubling down on junk food.

So far, the chain hasn't shown signs of embracing Doritos and similar brands, which some shoppers consider junk food.

Which, okay, junky can be delicious, buuuuuuut, there's a really special satisfaction that comes with eating a plant - based version of your favorite junk food, because it's usually not quite so junky.

In the UK, which faces exactly the same issue, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has put out a demand for a 20 % tax on fizzy drinks, a strict limit on fast food outlets near schools and other places where children and youth gather, the removal of junk food vending machines from hospitals, and a prohibition on junk food ads before 9.00 p.m.

Amazing that most recipes are for sugary junk foods and not real foods, which actually cancels out the good of cocoanut oil!

The exponential growth of the fast and junk food industries which has produced a pandemic of obesity across the country

There is laughter, junk food and easy conversation, the kind of college - life staples for which Vaughn has far too little time during the season.

My children love fruits and veggies which makes for a happy momma BUT with that said, they have their share of loving the junk foods as well.

Today on my Houston ISD school food blog, The Spork Report, I describe two potentially encouraging developments which could presage the end of junk food in our cafeterias: the recent, courageous action of two of our school board trustees in objecting to the sale of these foods, as well as a fantastic Houston Chronicle editorial today in which the paper urges HISD to clean up its act.

In today's New York Times, Jane Brody reports on the recently released results of the CHildhood Obesity Cost - Effectiveness Study (aka «CHOICES»), which examined various possible approaches to curbing childhood obesity and chose two as most likely to help: the imposition of taxes on sugary beverages and curbs on children's junk food advertising, both measures long supported here on The Lunch Tray.

As TLT readers know, one of my biggest complaints about school food is the prevalence of what I call «doctored junk food» — pizza, corn dogs, burgers and Frito Pie (a staple here in Texas) that may be tweaked nutritionally but which still teach kids... [Continue reading]

Kate: I agree there's an age at which we can expect kids to exercise their own judgment, bolstered by messages at home, though I still object at any grade level to the infiltration in schools of Big Food corporate interests, the sale of junk by the school itself, etc..

It is true that school lunches (I'm a teacher) are terrible, full of unhealthy junk foods like Poptarts, chicken nuggets of dubious origin (thanks Tyson) and Smart Waters (which are anything but).

However sometimes I think it's just expensive junk food, that we tell ourselves is better — which it is, sort of.

Fiona Kendrick, Chair and CEO of Nestlé (UK and Ireland), has been awarded a damehood in the New Year Honours for «services to obesity», in the words of Private Eye magazine, which highlights its marketing of junk foods and lobbying against policies to reduce obesity.

Last week on her wildly popular 100 Days of Real Food blog, Lisa Leake wrote a post about her 8 - year - old's sleepaway experience, which she titled Camp Junk Food (really, doesn't that just say it all?).

The tastings take a lesson from the junk food industry, which uses «fun» to sell, but the tastings «introduce children to the exquisite flavors of real food to help them to develop their palates, develop a lifelong love of good food and enjoy the benefits of a healthy life.»

On Fridays only we got a treat of «junk food» which was a hamburger (which had soy beans as a filler to stretch the meat further, I guess) or pizza.

If you have a chance read the book by Louise Hay» You Can Heal Your Life» It totally helped me think of myself in a different light and learn to be positive in thought which totally helped me realize I deserve better then junk food.

Last May I wrote a post about children's junk food advertising, the title of which says it all: «Self Regulation of Kids» Food Advertising: A Doomed Effort.&rafood advertising, the title of which says it all: «Self Regulation of Kids» Food Advertising: A Doomed Effort.&raFood Advertising: A Doomed Effort.»

Everyday we read or hear about unhealthy foods - foods like infant formula, processed / packaged industrially made infant foods, junk foods, foods with high levels of starch, transfats, highly processed foods, which increase our risk of getting cancer, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

Saturated and trans fats (which are in a lot of junk food) can alter the composition of your breast milk and possibly harm the health of your baby.

In its recent report, Still Too Fat to Fight, the nonprofit Mission: Readiness, which is run by retired military leaders, found that roughly 25 percent of young adults ages 17 to 24 are too overweight to qualify for military service and it targeted junk food vending machines in schools as a contributor to this problem.

I recently came across an an open letter, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in which a doctor expresses dismay over the glut of junk food his first grader is offered at school.

It would take an entire book to explain how flawed the NSLP has become, how, starting in the 1970s and 80s, the program morphed from an anti-hunger initiative into one in which school districts were so starved of cash by the federal government (thank you, Ronald Reagan) that school children came to be seen as «customers» whose palates must be pleased at all costs, with heavier reliance on junk food a la carte sales and «carnival food» menus.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

I was appalled to find that more than half of her pregnancy savers were either junk food or medication, both are things which your baby doesn't need during gestation.

Junk food sales, which prey on our hardwired love of sugar and fat, are a surefire way to raise money quickly and cheaply.

This link takes you to the «evolving» model of the continuum, on which you can track our progress, but I also have the original version I used back in 2002, which is just a piece of posterboard, with pictures at one end of all the junk food being sold / served at that time in our schools, and underneath, the flames of hell licking at the soda bottles and chips....

Back in early 2013, eight Houston high schools were fined a total of $ 73,000 by the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA), the state agency which oversees our child nutrition programs, for junk food fundraising that violated state policy.

In other words, if District 214 stays in the NSLP, starting this July it will have to implement the new Smart Snacks in Schools rules — rules which would bring to a screeching halt its lucrative business of selling fries, pizza and other junk food to its school children.

The reality is that children need help learning what's good for them to eat, because junk food (which has lots of calories, but little to no nutritional value) tastes great and is hard to resist, even for adults!

The historic rise in childhood obesity has absolutely nothing to do with: federal corn subsidies which unnaturally render junk food and fast food the cheaper option for many consumers; the food industry's intense focus on making junk food hyper - palatable; the almost $ 2 billion spent each year to aggressively market junk food to kids: the growing ubiquity of junk food in outlets which formerly never sold food (Michael's craft stores, fabric stores, car washes, etc.); or a host of other factors.

She laughingly told us something along the lines of «This is where your kids can get all that junk food they love,» to which I could only think, «And why is that in any way funny?»

In connection with its report, the Daily Mail published this photo, which purports to illustrate all of the junk food consumed by the average UK child in one year.

In the busyness of the season, nutrition often takes a backseat to convenience, and an overload of junk foods and sweets can cause tummy aches and crankiness which won't help them or you to have a jolly holiday.

The junk food diet also reduced the abundance of microbial species capable of metabolising flavonoids, which have been suggested to not only assist in weight loss but also exert neuro - protective functions within the brain.

The constant grind of stress may trigger a rise in the hormone cortisol, which, in turn, helps make insulin levels go up and blood sugar drop (enter the out - of - control junk food cravings).

I tell my patients that they need to be smart about their nutrition instead of relying on packaged and junk - food plant - based options, which are guaranteed to leave you missing out on key nutrients.

Many people ingest caffeine via soda and energy drinks, which are chock full of things like aspartame, sugar, food dyes and a lot of other junk.

She said she didn't need any sort of diet at all and that she practically ate everything in sight, which should put you at ease if you can't resist junk food.

In a hurry to get a meal, people often turn to junk food which is full of sugars and trans fats.

Please continue reading because there is something out there that decreases appetite, takes away craving for sweets, bad carbohydrates and gets rid of sugar spikes which then allows your brain / body to look for healthy food when one becomes hungry NOT JUNK Ffood when one becomes hungry NOT JUNK FOODFOOD.

One of the things that I really liked about this book is that Jon focuses on whole unprocessed food in its natural state, instead of all of the highly processed junk that fills the grocery stores these days... which coincides EXACTLY with my philosophy on food!

The intake of trans fats, which come mostly from junk food and animal products; saturated fat, mostly from dairy products and chicken; and cholesterol, coming mostly from eggs and chicken, should be as low as possible.

To make a long study short, they say that past comparisons of food costs were flawed because they only looked at price per calorie; whereas, comparing cost per average portion is a better measure in their opinion, and one which, incidentally, shows fruit and vegetables to be cheaper than most moderation (e.g. junk) foods.

The bottom line is that food manufacturers want you to be addicted to sugar and continue to buy all of their high profit junk foods and sugary drinks which destroy your health.

These cravings caused by stress are more often than not intended for junk and sweet foods which by and large are the key factors of gaining weight.

Dairy, meat, eggs, and junk foods all raise the activity of the TOR enzyme, which appears to be linked to obesity risk.