#Eat Healthy, Live Healthy
Eat healthy and live healthy’ is one of the essential requirements for long life. Unfortunately, today’s world has been adapted to a system of consumption of foods which has several adverse effects on health. Lifestyle changes has compelled us so much that one has so little time to really think what we are eating is right! Globalization and urbanization have greatly affected one’s eating habits and forced many people to consume fancy and high calorie fast foods, popularly known as ‘Junk foods’.
Children find themselves amidst a complex society that is undergoing breaths taking changes. Wafers, chips, colas, pizzas and burgers are suddenly the most attractive food items among children. Children rapidly seem to have stepped into a world of fast foods and vending machines, totally unaware of the havoc they are creating for themselves and their impact on their health. Good nutrition is of utmost priority in children at the time of steady growth between the ages of 6 – 12 years. In a study done inIndia,Beijing,
China and published in the year 2008 revealed eating junk food is a popular event among children and adolescents between the age of 8 and 16. Eating habits in such age group not only has an impact on their growth but also on their concentration, feeling and behavior.
Some serious effect of Junk Food is like:-
Beginning of clogging of arteries as early as at the age of 30 Risks of prostate and breast cancer linked to their eating habits at puberty Setting of hypertension and osteoporosis at an early age Vulnerability to slow growth Tooth decay Obesity High Blood Pressure Diabetes
Volunteer of “Parivartan Sandesh Foundation(PSF)” regularly keep visit to schools, in markets we placed canopy, distribute banners, pamphlet, to aware the students about bad effects of “Junk Food Items” & good values of natural food. From last 3 Months trust has been reached to 1,00,000/- with a target to reach 10,00,000/-.