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

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Eating unhealthy
food
 is becoming popular in many countries. It is indicated that young
children
 opt to have biscuits
instead
 of carrots.
This
 is
due to
 the affordability and
easy
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to
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of
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prepare
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.
However
, there are negative effects associated
to
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with
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 snacking. Most
school age
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school-age
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children
 prefer packing macdonalds for lunch.
This
 is because it is easier and it's what everyone is now eating.
Instead
 of packing a
home made
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homemade
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meal
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 it is cheaper and faster to make an order for chicken nuggets. Another reason why there
is
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 more and more
children
 who are eating fast
food
 is that the
food
 is easily accessible and affordable.
Children
 under the age of 18 get a discount.
Therefore
, it is
time saving
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 for young ones to eat junk foods. There are negative effects caused by eating too much of the sometimes
food
. One of them is obesity. Studies
has
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 shown that obesity is becoming a major problem in many young
children
. Feeding on unhealthy stuff  provide the body with too much fat than required.
This
 leads to
children
 becoming
over weight
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overweight
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.
Secondly
, reports of
heart
 attacks
on
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 young
children
 are
as
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apply
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a result of eating fast foods.
For example
, when
children
 eat too much junk and do not exercise they are at
high-risk
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high risk
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 of having a
heart
 attack. Eating
health
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healthy
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food
 is one of the major ways to prevent
heart
 attacks in
children
. In summary, having fast
food
 restaurants and affordable
allow
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allows
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children
 to eat unhealthy
food
, as a res
it
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there are more obese
children
 and
heart
 attacks being reported.
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