Children in many countries are eating more fast food and convenience snacks. Why are children doing this and hoxw serious are the consequences?

In recent times, the amount of junk

food

that young people eat has increased in many countries.

This

essay will analyze

firstly

the reason for

this

rise and

secondly

why

this

is

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significant issue for

children

. In modern times, parents use most of their

time

working, sleeping or commuting.

That is

why there is a need of doing the housework in the shortest

time

possible, and one way of achieving

this

is buying fast

food

and convenience snacks because it is fast and relatively cheap.

In addition

, TV and internet advertising of junk

food

is targeted to

children

so that they ask their parents to buy it. An example of

this

is a website of a cookie company that has advertisements disguised as videogames in order to make

children

remember their product and crave it. The main problem with

this

behaviour is that it damages

children

's health.

This

will have future negative effects beyond health

such

as poor academic

performace

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performance

.

Furthermore

,

this

will bring adverse consequences to

the

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society in the long term because it will reduce productivity

,

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because an unhealthy worker is less productive. To prove

this

assertion is very simple: Countries like Japan with

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very reduced fast

food

consumption have much higher productivity than those where junk

food

is ubiquitous. to sum up, these new alimentary habits caused by the lack of

time

of modern

time

families and fast

food

and snacks advertising will have negative consequences not only to

children

's health but

also

to their academic performance and, in the long term even to the countries productivity.