High Risk of Metabolic Complications Due to High Consumption of Processed Foods

The lack of knowledge among adolescents makes them more sensitive to engaging in unhealthy habits, which might harm their health and nutritional status. A high caloric diet and lack of physical activity generate reactive oxygen species, leading to neurological diseases. The gap in knowledge regarding junk food and its complications poses a significant threat to public health policy. Metabolic syndrome develops from high fat-induced chronic inflammation and leads to cognition disturbances, stroke, and neurological diseases like Alzheimer's. Adolescent age is the most devastating one, in which several lifestyle-associated diseases occur that are associated with chronic diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, Type 2 diabetes mellitus, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, hypertension, etc. The disordered eating behaviors should be prevented at the earliest to overcome the "fast food genocide" from eating processed foods, leading to obesity and nutritional deficiencies, which further cause neurological complications and destroy the brain cell. As we age, memory begins to decline. Thus, lowering our intake of high-calorie-rich foods and salt could reduce metabolic syndrome-related and agerelated issues like blood pressure, T2DM, obesity, etc. Thus, to curb diseases linked with junk foods, awareness about nutritional values among adolescents and higher tax slabs on junk foods should be imposed to reduce the purchase of such products.