– What exactly is it that makes “fas food” to be considered “junk food” and what exactly makes it unhealthy?

Question

When I say “fast food” I primarily mean anything such as Kentucky, Pizza Hut, McDonalds, Burger King?

Health advocates say “Junk food is bad and to cut it out” but what exactly is it?

Would you describe other types of take away as being “fast food or “junk food” such as Indian take away and Chinese take away?

What primarily are the “bad parts” of “junk food”?

What types of restaurants, food outlets would not be considered “junk food”?

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Answer 1

The major problems with food is what was once scarce and prized has become common. Fatty salty and sweet foods have things that are costly to aquire in the past. Today I can get more than my body can handle in one meal and given that you can only consume so much food in a day you need it to contain both the calories you need (which were previously scarce and therefore tasty) as well as fiber and vitamins which are fairly common.

Junk food has alot of what we crave and the rest gets ignored because there was no evolutionary pressure to eat it because is was basically unavoidable.