A WRITE UP ON THE BAN ON JUNK FOODS BY BAVITHA T

 A WRITE UP ON THE BAN ON JUNK FOODS BY BAVITHA T

BAN OF JUNK FOODS IN KERALA

Kerala, the God's own country is famous for her

mouth watering unique recipes. Our rice soup and

curry are famous all over the world. Many tourists are

visiting our state for these unique recipes.

But it is very sad to say that, Keralites are

addicted to Junk Foods nowadays. We are trying to

emulate Europeans by following their way of eating.

We are addicted to Burgers,Pizza,Shawarma which are

famous in Europe. We are actually ignoring our

unique culture and running behind those Americians.

Earlier, we were very interested in eating

indigenous foods like Dosa,Idili,Sambar....But, now

the situation changes. Even our small children are

addicted to Junk foods. So our immunity is reducing

and we are becoming more and more vulnerable to

diseases.

Recently, the government was in a continuous

effort to prevent this addiction. Now they have come

forward with a mission to ban Junk Foods near our

school premises, so that our children will be safe from

these Junk Foods. But according to me banning junk

foods will only cause more and more troubles. We

have seen many drugs like marijuana,pan masala

which are banned in our nation , being secretly used

by some people. Some are considering it as a job and

earning millions of rupees. So banning will not put a

full stop to this issue.

Creating awareness is the most effective

solution. Awareness can do wonders ! We must

approach them psychologically and try to illustrate the

disadvantages of these junk foods. We know that the

main reason for consuming Junk foods is the lack of

time. Most of our families are nuclear families. We

don't have grandmas who are well educated of Kerala

style mouth watering recipes. Most of our parents are

employed and don't have enough time to prepare

meals for us. So they are giving money to buy what

we need. But these habits that we practise just to save

few hours can make us spare many years. It causes

many deadly diseases like cancer. These Junk food

items contain many preservatives.

Just think of our cheapest and favourite junk

food 'LAYS' which is very popular among our kids.

The manufacturers of this product are claiming that

they are real potato chips which contains lot of

nutrition. But its taste is entirely different from real

potato chips. It contains ajinomoto which is an

extremely dangerous chemical.

So let's stop this habit. It is high time to go back

to our old style of living by consuming our indigenous

food items.- BAVITHA .T

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