FACTS:

Unhealthy food

 ericans eat 13 billion hamburgers each year, which is enough to circle the earth more than
32 times.
 Lower income people eat more junk food than more affluent people. Scientists suggest that
extreme economic uncertainty makes it less likely that someone will prepare for a long-term,
healthy diet.
 Eating junk food alters the brain activity in a way similar to addictive drugs do, such as
cocaine and heroin.
 A single fast-food hamburger can contain meat from hundreds, or even thousands, of
different cattle.
 Four out of five children recognize the Mcdonald's logo by the time they are three years
old, which is before some of them know their own names.
 The father of pizza is considered to be Rafaele Esposito from Italy. He wanted his pizza to
look like the Italian flag, so he topped his pizza with green basil, white mozzarella, and red
tomatoes.
Eating too much junk food while pregnant can also lead to gestational diabetes
 Mothers-to-be who eat junk food during pregnancy increase the likelihood that their
children will eat unhealthy as well.
 In Japan, eel and squid are popular pizza toppings.
 Over 1 billion pizzas are delivered in the United States every year. More pizzas are
delivered on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year.
 Chick-fil-A sells more than 1.64 billion chicken nuggets every year. That would be more
than 5 nuggets for each person in the U.S.
  Eating fast food regularly has the same impact on the liver as hepatitis. French fries, fried
chicken, and onion rings are particularly harmful.
 Pizza Hut uses over 300 million pounds of cheese per year.
 The number of jars of Nutella sold in a year could cover the Great Wall of China eight
times.
 Alloxen, a byproduct of bleaching white flour which is often found in junk food, leads to
diabetes in healthy experimental animals by destroying their pancreatic beta cells.

Healthy food

For good health, well-being and a healthy weight, it’s recommended that we eat:
 plenty of plant foods, such as fruit, vegetables, bread and other grain-based foods
 moderate amounts of animal foods (preferably lean and reduced fat), such as lean meat, reduced fat dairy
products, chicken, fish and eggs
 small amounts (sometimes or not at all) of fatty, high sugar ‘extra foods’, such as lollies, chocolate, soft
drinks, cakes, sweet biscuits, pies, sausage rolls, sugary drinks.
The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating sets out the amounts of each of the five food groups that children
and adults should eat every day.
Population surveys
Population surveys indicate that many children do not meet these healthy eating recommendations. For
example, children commonly eat too many ‘extra’ foods but not enough vegetables, fruit, breads and
cereals.
Children and young people 0-15 years
The 2009-2010 Report on Child Health from the New South Wales Population Health Survey (NSW Health)
provides a snapshot of the health and well-being of children aged 0-15 years. Information was collected
from the parents and carers of more than 4,000 children.
The report made a number of important findings about the health of children and their eating habits.
 Almost three quarters of children aged 2-15 years ate the recommended daily fruit intake.
 Almost half of children aged 2-15 years ate the recommended daily amount of vegetables.
 Most children usually drank full cream milk, which can be high in fat. Reduced fat milk is recommended for
children aged two years and above.
 The majority of children ate ‘extra foods’ – such as fried potato products, potato crisps or salty snacks,
confectionary and cakes/biscuits – at least once per week.
 Few families ate together at the table every day and about a fifth of children ate in front of the television
every day.
 Most children aged 0-23 months had been breastfed at some time, but few were exclusively breastfed to six
months as recommended. However, there have been significant increases in exclusive breastfeeding till 6
months from previous surveys.

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