A: Hi, what a surprise to meet you here. What’s that in your mouth?
B: Oh, I am eating candy. Would you like to have some?
A: No, thank you. I don’t take junk food.
B: You mean this candy is junk food? I thought only fast food is called junk food.
A: You’re right. Candies are considered as junk food. Other than candies, soda drinks like
cola and sprite, also potato chips, French fries and burgers are all called junk foods. They
can easily cause overweight and even obesity to teenagers and young children.
B: Why is it so?
A: Because these junk foods have very high calories; if taken too much they can increase the
chance of contacting heart diseases!
B: I see. In that case, parents should be more careful and they should prevent their children
from taking these junk foods.
A: Yes, but it is easier said than done.
B: Why do you say that?
A: Because there are so much enticing advertisements of junk foods on TV nowadays and
with all those novelty gifts given away together with the foods, children find it hard to resist
the temptations. And as the only child in the family, the parents usually give in to the child’s
demand.
B: Looks like our government should do something to help the parents. Is there any action
taken to help children cutting down on junk foods in our country?
A: No, not that I know of. But in Britain, the authority is planning to implement a new policy to
help preventing the spread of child obesity.
B: What do they plan to do?
A: They want to ban all junk food advertisements on TV during the prime times on all the
children channels.
B: That’s very thoughtful. I hope our government will take some measures like this also.
A: Yes, let’s hope we won’t have to wait too long.