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CONTENT

PART A Junk food Consumption PART B Greenhouse Effect Bibliography

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PART A Recently, we quite often heard about issues related to unhealthy eating. Most of these issues talks about consumption of junk food. We should educate people how to avoid this unhealthy style of living. From my point of view there is no other way to teach people the way of healthy eating and to avoid junk food other than education. Through education, we can teach a different level of people in understanding the effects of junk food consumption on our health, psychological and social. Health is the main issues that can be affected when people start cravings for junk foods because it doesnt contain any nutrition that your body needs. Junk food has been shown as being correlated directly to obesity and excessive weight gain. The contains of sugar, salt and fat in junk food are the main ingredients that lead to health problems such as, diabetes, high-blood pressure, caries and cavity on tooth and heart disease. Junk food puts your metabolism under stress, where the high levels of sugar makes your pancreas secretes large amounts of insulin to controls sugar levels in your blood. As sugar works by putting pressure on your pancreas, fat on the other hands accumulate inside your body beneath your skin causes you to gain weight and as a result, you will become obese. Obesity is well known for putting you at risk of having diabetes, heart disease and arthritis. In some worst cases, it may lead to heart attack. An obese person tends not to have an active lifestyle because it is hard to carry their own body weight to do exercises. In addition of being obese, most of them like to be couch potato in front television with a heap of junk food as a company during free time, and even worst during meal time. People who are having junk foods as their main course during meal time consume a large amount of salt most of the time. High amount of salt can contribute to high-blood pressure, which increases blood flow, leading to head pressure and pain. Chips and other processed food like burger is the biggest contributor in amount of salt per serving. Moreover, these foods are the most chosen and favorable by junk food and fast food lovers. Peoples who take junk food not only exposed to chronic health problems. They are also being exposed to a psychological problem where they becoming addicted to this kind of food cause by the effect of formulated contains that mimics other addictions such as drug use and cigarette smoking. Psychological effects can be indentified on people who likes junk food shows when their start craving for it. This situation arise when someone deprives themselves of foods they enjoy, they start wanting those foods even more. Hormonal
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imbalances and an imbalance in adrenal function are the other factors that can be found at the root of cravings. People who are having poor sleeping patterns and living under constant stress are the perfect candidates that may kindle they crave for junk foods. Overeating is also a key trigger that makes people craving for junk foods. People who are cravings for this kind of food are vulnerable to many kind of mental health problem such as mental disorders. Brain neurotransmitters will affected when consuming foods contains high amount of trans-fat. They might suffer from mental disorders like Depression and Alzheimer. This is because they are having not enough vitamins and minerals in their meal and it also causing damage to the brain when blood circulation to their brain has been blocked. Damaged or dysfunctional changes in the brain lead to many psychological problems. Junk food addict will experience emotional vulnerability or feeling numb to the world. This condition caused by the chemical contain inside the food that initiated biochemical changes inside their body. People with mental disorders because of this unhealthy eating will also exposed to anxiety, trembling and fatigue. This problem happens because of lack of nutrition and high in unwanted carbohydrate which doesnt need by the body. Junk foods not only cause a negative effects on health psychology, both of the conditions mention above will eventually affects their social life. Being obese and tends to feel stress because of mental disorders will make them having low of self esteem. They started to feel being discriminate the by the society because of their physical appearance and mental state. This kind of people will feels that their being shun by the society or community and love to be alone in their home in front of television set while continuing their junk foods eating habits. They live on their own world and avoid the society. What they only need is the continuous stock of junk food at anytime when they need it. No more exercises or physical activities, contacts with friends and even worst their own family. You are what you eat. It is important to make sure that you what you choose to enter your stomach. Even a good meal can turns bad if you had too much of it. What do you think about junk food? Usually when dealing with something which is hazardous to your health, one bad thing will lead to another. By determining what you probably should have during your meal, you may help yourself or even others. If this habit of eating junk food isn't controlled, or the effects of it never been shared. Lots of people will dont even care, and someday we will see many of our young generation walking around with their useless spare tire.
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Part B Greenhouse effect refers to a process where the heat rays from the sun get trapped in the earths atmosphere by gases that known as the greenhouse gases to naturally preserve the earth temperature and to make sure the earth in a suitable condition to support life. All of us agreed that the sun is the primary source of the heat in this world, and every living things get the heat energy that comes together with the sunlight. However, in this modern world human also act as a major role in contributing to the increasing degree of heat that turns this world into a steamy oven. The heat that passed through the atmosphere consistenly gets bounced back after reaching the earth and radiated into space. Nevertheless, some of the heat gets trapped by the gases in the air and cannot decamp into the space. Collectively, these gases are known as greenhouse gases. The greenhouse gases is a layer of gases that sojourn in the atmosphere which act like a blanket that can capture heat and it consists of many types of gases such as water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases. Carbon dioxide holds about 54.7% of the greenhouse gases in our atmosphere (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fourth Assessment Report, 2007) . Second, comes the methane (30%), and the nitrous oxide in the third position with 4.9%. All these gases have different properties, some of them can only last in the atmosphere for a short time, but some can last for a thousand years. Furthermore, human activities kept continue releasing the greenhouse gases into atmosphere especially the carbon dioxide. Burnt fossil fuels mostly from the vehicles and industries are accountable for the releasing the large amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In 2005, carbon dioxide emissions due to human activities reach nearly 30,000 million metric tons (World Resource Institute, 2012). To establish the condition worse, our world is experiencing a very critical tree felling problem. The tree is proverbial as the natural neutralizer that absorb the carbon dioxide while they go through photosynthesis and change it into oxygen. In other words, dearth of tree means less carbon dioxide to be neutralized and our human race will face the consequence of the inadequate of oxygen. All the released carbon dioxide also known as the gas that contains heat or hot gas in a simple word. Therefore, all the heat that's been radiated back into space add to the heat that we, human release from our daily activities will stay roaming in our atmosphere due to the blanket created by these deleterious gases it will make us confront the global warming. As the world goes warmer, there are more complication to come such as the climate change and the rise of sea levels due to the melting of ice in the Antartic and Greenland. In brief, the
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greenhouse effect which should withhold the earth temperature warm and pertinent for the living things has become a portent to the world because of us, human.

Bibliography Books: Spurlock, M. (2006). Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America. New York. G. P. Putnams Sons.
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Smith, Andrew. F. (2006). Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food. Unites States of America. Greenwood Publishing Group.

Web sites: http://kimberlysnyder.net/blog/2012/08/21/the-long-term-effects-of-that-fast-food-meal/

http://tracker.dailyburn.com/forums/diet_and_nutrition/topics/the_psychological_effect_junk _food_causes_for_weight_gain

http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/fast-food-nutrition-junk-foodseffect-on-your-body.html