Food Fact Friday...Junk Food

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Well folks, today is FOOD FACT FRIDAY… today’s topic is: Junk Food.

Junk food is typically defined as foods with little nutritional value that are high in calories, fat, sugar, salt, or caffeine. Junk food can include breakfast cereals, candies, chips, cookies, French fries, gum, hamburgers, hot dogs, ice cream, sodas, and most sweet desserts.

In 1979, in what has become known as the “Twinkie Defense,” Daniel White said he killed San Francisco mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk because he ate too much junk food, such as Twinkies, candy bars, and cupcakes, which caused a chemical imbalance in his brain. He was still convicted and, in 1981, Congress outlawed the “Twinkie Defense.”

Fats from junk food trigger the brain to want more food. This effect can last for several days.

More than $2 billion of candy is sold for Halloween, more than any other holiday.

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I don’t know about you, but I am crazy about junk food… I know it is unhealthy, and that is why I am over weight and have Type-2 Diabetes. I am using my blog as research and therapy to try and get myself together, and it seems that it has slowly started working. I have started to pay more attention to what I eat. I am determined to get healthier and more fit.

That is it for today folks.

Until tomorrow,

Mysterychef1