junk food

Examines the fast food industry with facts about its evolution and practices, the effects of fast food consumption on public health, and the international success of fast food.

What is junk food and how much should you be eating? Sure, chips and candy taste great but healthy snacks like fresh fruits and veggies can be better for your overall health. Trying to maintain a balance between the two can be hard but in the end the choices you make can make you feel great! Think about it next time you reach for a quick snack and ask yourself, should I or shouldn t I? This title will allow students to identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text. Bold keywords with phonetic glossary Text based questions Table of contents and headings.

Draws on the latest scientific research to illustrate how the flavor of today's food has changed, becoming more bland as producers grow food that's bigger and cheaper. Discusses how humans' chemical language has been interrupted and the loss of flavor in foods has caused Americans to crave more and more food while still feeling unsatisfied.

"What is junk food and how much should you be eating?"--Back cover.

Includes a wide range of opinions surrounding issues concerning the question, should junk food be sold in school?.

As the new computer lab teacher tries to bring Ella Mentry School into the twenty-first century with her peculiar inventions, second-grader A.J. struggles to survive without sugary snacks when principal Klutz bans junk food.

A look at fast food, what's in it, how it's made, and what it does to our bodies.

Describes the eating disorder known as orthorexia nervosa which occurs when a person's devotion to healthy eating becomes an obsession that can lead to increasingly stricter, ultimately unhealthy diets, and includes advice on how to cope with and overcome the problem.