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Ways To Reduce Junk Food Consumption: Are you someone who experiences urges to eat junk foods at regular intervals? Consuming junk foods regularly can have detrimental and adverse effects on an individual’s health. They can cause irreparable damage to the body and be a host of several chronic diseases as well. Junk foods are loaded with unhealthy fats, added sugar, and processed foods that can increase your risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Therefore, it is essential to limit your junk food intake for a healthy body, but how? Kareena Kapoor Khan’s nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar explains how to reduce your junk food consumption. 

 
 
 
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Ways To Reduce Junk Food Consumption

Identify Junk Food

Obvious junk food which we can clearly identify as unhealthy, for example, fast food chains selling pizza and burgers, packaged chips, colas, chocolates, ice-creams, pastries, doughnuts, instant noodles, ketchup, mayonnaise, etc.

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Camouflaged junk food which pretends to be healthy but isn’t. E.g. breakfast cereals, juices (tetra pak, powders, etc), biscuits (even the fibre-rich ones), dark chocolate, chocolate syrups, malted powders for milk, cupcakes and muffins, ready to cook food, frozen food, energy drinks, baked or multigrain chips, jams and spreads, instant noodles (wheat, multi-grain, vegetables, oats), flavoured yoghurt and milk, etc.

Make Strategy For Consumption

Set a monthly limit, ideally once a month. But if you are consuming a lot of junk food, plan to reduce it by 50% each consecutive month. For example, if you eat junk food 8 times a month, then in month one, reduce it to 4, in month two, reduce it to 2 and in month three, reduce it to one.

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As parents, never give junk food as a reward as a means of celebration (especially festivals) or to show your love. This leaves a long-lasting impact on impressionable minds.

Always remember that your favourite superstars or cricketers who endorse these junk foods never have it themselves and only do it for money.

Why You Must Not Have Junk Food?

It hampers growth, physical and mental and ensures you never achieve your full potential.

It provides entry to all kinds of NCDs in your life – diabetes, obesity, fatty liver, PCOD, cancer and the like.

It leads to irritability, mood swings, loss of concentration along with other mental health issues. And worse, it is addictive. The more junk food you eat, the more junk food you will feel like eating. It’s a vicious cycle.

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(Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis or treatment.)

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