Junk Food Lowers Kids Intelligence

junk food is like poison. Poison will get you weaker and have huge effects on everything. Its the same with junk food, i suggest parents to prepare lunch for their kids, dont give them money to go to fast food.

There are LOTS of foods that have a GREAT shelf life that are inexpensive and tasty. I think it is horrible that people generally just provide JUNK! And yesterday, I saw a cornbread mix at a store. I read te ingredients. It has ALUMINUM in it! They should be thrown in jail for selling poison as food!

ANOTHER thing. It is ILLEGAL in the US to sell food that is not properly labeled! The courts have ALSO stated that shrink wraped, or otherwise obfuscated labels are INVALID! SO, technically, EVEN according to court precident, the snacks in vending machines are NOT properly labeled! I wonder when they will finally be SUED!

The same is true of restaurants, but that IS starting to catch up with THEM. They recently subjected restaurants to a law that was law over a DECADE ago by requiring them to show the calories and macro ingredients in them.

Steve

Not surprised... it's sad to see how much junk food places exist out there...

Remember Jamie Oliver's attempt at improving school lunch in the UK?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie's_School_Dinners#Results

Just look at the junk food advertising out there - it's everywhere! Sad!

Your kidney is going to get junked if you eat too much junk food. That's the truth about junk food.

Some guy is suing Taco Bell right now because they have one of their tacos called a "beef taco" when it doesn't even have enough meat in it to legally be called "meat" let alone beef. LOL. McDonald hamburger buns are about like eating plaster of paris.

It IS interesting. ******DECADES****** ago, I believe even before I was a kid, they mandated ingredient lists on food items. APPARENTLY restaurants were exempted. They did find that labeling that could not be easily viewed did NOT meet legal standards. A couple decades ago, they standardized the requirement for calories and macro nutrients on food. SUPPOSEDLY, restaurants were exempt. Well, at least 5 years ago, they MANDATED that restaurants provide upon request, EVEN in the restaurant, a list showing the calories and macro nutrients.

It is crazy that a company like say wolfgang pucks MUST provide a list of ingredients on ALL food sold in a store, but NOT in their restaurant. I wonder how long it will be before the law catches up to this. In LA county, some health code violations got SO bad that they started grading restaurants. And it is illegal for a restaurant to operate without prominantly displaying that code. That's what those big blue signs that have like A,B,C on them in movies at such restaurants are. Well, wheat might as well be a poison to some, and can be more dangerous than E.coli. They should say you can't get a B if you don't provide ingredient lists.

And did you know that SOME trans fats are HEALTHY and GOOD!

Steve

Hi all,
Junk foods are dangerous for everyone, not only for kids. It can rust human memory and laziness, heart attacks and many more kinds of problem generated. Basically its not a regular food but unfortunately people using it as a regular food which is very bad for health.

I don't think it just affects childrens intelligence but also behavior. There seems to be so much more behavior problems in children these days and I believe a big cause of that is all the additives and preservatives that they eat in all this junk food.

JUST the fact that it abruptly raises blood sugar is reason for concern.

there are an increase of junk food restaurants for businesses purposes but health isnt valued here.

mojojuju,

I didn't know Tacobell had any protologists on their payroll!

YEECH!

Steve

mojojuju - If they're telling the truth, they won't get sued. Bad thing with franchises is that someone can do something that isn't kosher with the chain. Sometimes they get caught. If the manager at that store was stuffing other stuff in the beef to save money, he's just been caught.

Sheryl - there's several food additives that can cause behavioral problems in kids -- Non organic milk is known to cause behavior problems. Not sure which of the chemicals in it is responsible, though - it might be the growth hormone.

Its true junk food is a slow killer,has no nutritional value at all.Its known to raise blood sugar levels and causes obesity in children.
Why should we subject our kids to such poison? mark u most junk food does not attract mould or fungi at all even when left in the open!

The problem is that because they make these foods so tasty - and I know it is the flavor additives that cause a lot of the problems - these are the foods the kids want. The don't want the good nutritional food that has no taste!

It becomes a problem too when they go to school and all their friends are eating junk food, it's the peer pressure of it too.

You know I have a friend who has kids the same age as and her son is very overweight - he weighs more than I do. Every time you see these kids they have junk food with them! If you give the kids junk food they are going to keep eating it and it's really not fair on the kids!

This doesn't surprise me. Junk food is JUNK.... The food is devoid of nutrition and omega-3 fats. Omega-3 fats feed brain cells. Feed kid's fish and other brain foods and they will thrive.

Yeah!. Our pediatrician told us that junk food makes a child less intelligent.. I think thats not quite true. Maybe for those who eat junk foods everytime.

Actually, junk food is no more devoid of various fats than some good foods. The problems are because they are too high in bad fats, too high in HGI carbs, and too high in carbs in general. Things like aspertame are actually excitotoxins and neural poisons. aspertame is an excitotoxin, and at least one byproduct, methanol, is a neural poison. And high blood sugar has been shown to have the same effect. Of course, NORMAL people respond to that poison by converting it to fat, but even THAT can be bad.

Steve