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Healthy life style is one of the important requirement for people to survive in long life, but in this

days people has been adapted to unbalanced foods intake which has several effect on their

health. It can be categorized as a trigger food. Trigger food is actually carries the same meaning

as junk food or fast food. Different meaning of trigger food can be delivered according to

peoples way of thinking. As for us, we agree on what Puteri Juneita had mentioned in her

article, which it is defined from common features; very sweet, fatty or salty or all combined. This

serves most peoples way to define fast food. In this section, we are going to discuss further on

the definition of trigger food, the advantages and disadvantages of eating trigger food and the

sides effect to our body.

As I have mention before, trigger food can be said as junk food or fast food, which are easy to

make and easy to consume .According to article the weight watchers research Department (2012)

said that a trigger can be define as something that sets a motion a course of events while trigger food is a

specific food that can course someone overeating where control is lost. The most common trigger food

are contain calorie-dense, highly palatable foods that are often combination of sugar and fat.

These advantages can be classified into few parts. Firstly, the time factor. Trigger food addiction

is so high because of its simplicity. They are easy to prepare and very appetizing. Trigger food

such as potato wafers and chests do not even need heating or cooking. People prefer to eat them

while watching their favorite dramas, they save themselves a lot of hassles and time when they

are in a hurry eating pizzas and burger as they served at their door step hot and ready to eat. If

time constraint is one of the advantages that pushes people to eating trigger food, great taste is

also, to an extent influences them to make a choice for trigger food. Trigger foods have their

taste owning to lavish usage of oils, salts and sugar. Global broadcaster BBC World and leading
market research firm Synovate (2012)conducted a survey that showed Britons are more addicted

to trigger food than any other nations. Overall the survey showed that across the people have

conflicting attitudes and behaviors about trigger food. Once they caught in trigger food

addiction, they find it is hard to think about the loss of nutrition due to trigger food. Furthermore,

shelf life of trigger food. It is because trigger food has a long shelf life and may not require

refrigeration for most products like chips and wafer. Lastly, the advantage of trigger food is easy

of transportation. It is because the transportation of trigger food is easy due to its packaging as

compare to the man-made food. Ease of transportation and availability increase the popularity of

trigger food day by day.

Here are some trigger food facts that help to understand the harmful effects associated with

them. Some of them are long term while others are short terms effects. Lack of energy known as

short term adverse effect resulting from eating trigger food as trigger food dont provide the

essential nutrients like vitamins, protein and fibers even though they can very much sufficing,

people feel weakened. Next, poor concentration can be classified as immediate and medium term

periods effect. When peoples have a sumptuous junk meal rich in oil they feel drowsy and fail to

concentrate. Over sustained periods of trigger food eating blood circulation drop due to fat

accumulation, lack of vital oxygen, nutrients and protein particularly can stale their brain cells

temporarily. Furthermore, high cholesterol one of the part disadvantage where it apart from

forming plaques and constricting arteries. It also affects liver where it is metabolized. High

cholesterol due to trigger food and diet strains liver damaging it finally. This is long term effect.

Moreover, trigger food is a major cause of heart diseases (Myocardial infarction) due to plaque

formation in arteries which demands heart to put in extra effort to pump blood on the

downstream, on the upstream there is lack of returning blood to heart, this causes two damages to
heart heart fatigues due to continuous extra effort and it suffer in oxygen supply. In fact, trigger

food is rich in fat, so accumulation of fat can takes place in bronchioles so oxygen supply tends

to reduce in body which can cause some respiratory disorders. As we know, trigger food have

sugar that can make someone additive as heroin and cocaine. They stimulate the same receptors

in the brain that can make feel good due to increased dopamine level. Trigger food have a lot of

hidden sugar and fat to make someone additive and also enhance the taste. Last but not list, the

nutritional value of trigger food is about one on a scale of 1 to 10,which is the least. It means,

trigger food contain low nutrition value due to lost in the process of make it. Synthetic vitamins

and minerals are added to compensate it, but they are not good compared to natural vitamins and

minerals. Natural phytochemicals are not present in trigger food which soaks up the free radicals

to prevent disease.

Awareness on trigger food facts is lacking dramatically in every comer of society. Clever trigger

food advertising and lure of convenience in addition to taste get people to trigger food addiction.

Trigger food more give effect on negative sides on the body, for example is obesity . According

to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the definition of obesity is when your

body mass index (BMI) is 30.0 or higher and it have two type of obesity. The first type is

diabetes mellitus and the second type is diabetes insipidus. Diabetes mellitus is a chronic

metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia, glycosuria and hyperlipemia.Diabetes

mellitus also have two type which are insulin dependent and insulin independent. While for

diabetes insipidus occurs when a person's kidneys pass an abnormally large volume of urine. A

person with diabetes insipidus, the kidneys can pass 3 to 20 quarts of urine a day. As a result, a

person with diabetes insipidus may feel the need to drink large amounts of liquids. Trigger food

also can causes the dental cavities. It is because food that we eat accumulated on the teeth space
and plaque formation occurs which finally make a corrosive on the teeth. Furthermore,

neurological effect on the brain one of effect side of trigger food. It can create a person with

drowsiness, laziness and attention deficient hyper activity as their characteristic. The main effect

by eating junk food is develop a cancer to our body. So, if we are continue eating junk food as a

main food for our diet, it can cause a serious effect on our body.

In the nut shell, consumption of the junk food can cause a varies health problems. The habit of

consumption of junk food is continuously increasing in young generation especially for children

with age between 9 to 12 years old. The main effect with junk food are increasing the obesity in

our children which further leads many health complication in children Everyone should think twice

before deciding to eat junk foods. When it will comes to eating food thats made within matter

seconds. The food is not properly taken care of, which leads all the way back to where the food is

originally produced. Although it is easy to buy and cheap, the health risks outweigh the five

minutes of satisfaction that junk food brings. What you eat can affect your hearts health and your

chances of developing life-threatening heart disease (Robin). When you eat all of the fats, sugars,

and salts, your heart can grow weak and it will endanger you. There is no safe risk for your body

when it comes to eating fast food.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the definition of obesity is

when your body mass index (BMI) is 30.0 or higher. BMI is a calculation of your height and

weight

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