Junk Food Cravings - How Often Do You Go Overboard?
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Stop! Put Down Those Cookies and Step Away from the Junk Food!
Junk food. We eat it on the go, blaming our hectic schedules and the fact that we don't have time to make healthful foods. We down it while mindlessly watching TV … a bag of popcorn here, a whole bag of Double Stuff Oreo cookies there.
Sooner or later, it catches up with you. Not only is our junk food addiction wreaking havoc on our own lives and bodies, but it's influencing our children as well. We're raising a generation that doesn't know what healthy food is!
Junk food comes in all shapes and sizes - from the Super-Sized Big Mac meal at McDonalds to the individual cans of soda we drink in place of the water our bodies crave to help our organs function properly.
When was the last time you had junk food? Probably pretty recently. You might even have it in hand as you're reading this lens! Well --- now's the time to put down the bag of Doritos and put yourself on a path where 90% of your diet is healthy and you use junk food as an occasional indulgence, not as the sole source of nutrition for your body.
Once you begin replacing junk food cravings with cravings for healthy substitutes, you'll realize there are many benefits to the swap. You'll feel energetic, but that energy will last all day - not like the surge in energy you get when you scarf down a Snicker's bar.
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And you'll lose weight!
It's a great idea to head to the doctor and just get him to run a few stats for you before you cut back, so that you can see just how drastically your cholesterol and blood pressure improves, not to mention other bodily functions.
Recently Macdonalds did an experiment with carrots that were packaged in ordinary wrapping and carrots that were packaged in Macdonalds packaging. Guess what? Children tested them and said that the carrots in the Macdonalds packaging tasted better!
They were the same carrots -- this certainly shows how ingrained the advertising and brand recognition get deep within our brains and also this is why large corporations want to brainwash our children.
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What'cha Gonna Do With All That Junk?

Throw it out!
Sometimes, to instill new habits in yourself, you have to avoid the very things that are enticing you. A drug addict has to avoid his friends who do drugs. A junk food addict who craves fatty foods has to steer clear of that bad neighborhood - the center aisles of the grocery store where processed foods lurk and call out your name.
Start by cleaning out your fridge. Is what's in there damaging your health? Each item you pick up needs to be evaluated for how it meets your nutritional needs. Does it have lots of fiber to help flush out toxins? Is it full of calcium to help you build strong bones?
Or is its only purpose to produce a rush of endorphins and flavor after a hard day's work? If it doesn't serve a good purpose, toss it in the garbage. Next, go through your cabinets. Cookies, pasta dishes with rich, creamy (aka: fattening) sauces - give them the boot!
Junk Food Cravings
Dr. Oz was on Oprah showing clips of how they took a group of people plagued by cholesterol and blood pressure problems and put them on a diet where they ate 11 pounds of raw food each day - and not only did their blood pressure and cholesterol drop in a mere 10 days, but they lost weight, too!
It doesn't take long for the positive effects of ridding your life of junk food to take place. Your body will immediately begin putting the good food to use, clearing out toxins and applying the vitamins and minerals to help keep you healthy for the long term.
Don't wait until Monday to get started, or swear you'll do it "right after the holidays."
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Junk Food Advertising Aimed at Children on the Internet
Obesity in Children Because of Online Advertising
Junk Food advertising is increasing on the internet. Have you noticed that even though the traditional Junk Food companies are jumping on the Healthy Food bandwagon, they are still infiltrating the internet with their hypnotic messages!Children (and adults) are very vulnerable to advertising, especially when it is repeated over and over. Also when it is fun and incorporated into games, the ideas will get in their brains and they will not be able to filter out what is junk food and what is healthy food.
- Close to one-third of the advertising that included websites was for food.
- The most frequently used strategy to encourage ongoing and return website visits was advergames -- 84 percent of the websites assessed included online games.
- Every advergame included at least one brand identifier, with logos being the most frequent and direct product representation being the second-most frequent.
- On average, only one nutrition or physical activity message appeared for every 45 brand identifiers.
The Junk Food Industry is masterful at marketing - they have spent billions of dollars and decades learning what will appeal to the public.
Here is a quote:
"I was astounded by how often logos or actual food products were integrated into the games," said Culp. "For example, some games used candy or cereal as game pieces. In others, a special code that was only available by purchasing a particular cereal was necessary to advance to higher game levels."
You can read this important article Junk Food Cravings Advertising Aimed at Children Let's develop cravings for the right kinds of food.
Diana Walker, Cravings Coach
What Makes You Overdose on Junk Food?

Don't Let Junk Food Have ANY Power Over You!
Once you've turned your house upside down and shaken out all of the junk food, how do you prevent yourself from just going down to the store to buy more junk food to soothe your cravings?You have to learn how to attract the right things in your life - from the career and relationships you have to the mindset you choose to use when it comes to viewing your food choices!
The law of attraction is a simple concept that millions of people are using to regain control over their lives instead of relying on fate and destiny to take them where they need to go.
If you leave things up to chance, the wrong choices might take root. But if you actively seek to change your thought patterns - so that choosing healthful foods comes naturally to you, then you won't struggle with so-called willpower and things you feel you're unable to control.
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Study Says 30% of Calories are from "Junk Food"
Dr. Block, who conducted the study, said "It's no wonder there's an obesity epidemic in this country".
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LaraineRose Sep 2, 2009 @ 4:18 am | delete
- As a young girl I was never allowed junk food. (Maybe it didn't exist that long ago:=)) Now I crave salty things. I have to really try hard not to eat that. 5*s
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DianaWalker
Dec 5, 2009 @ 10:02 pm | delete
- Hi LaraineRose! Sorry I didn't see your post earlier, I've been neglecting my Squidoo lenses.
Thanks so much for commenting - and I think that a lot of us were fortunate not to grow up with so much junk food as the current generation. I have a strong desire to help families and particularly children, to get onto the right track with nutrition!
Thanks for stopping by!
Diana
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stargazer00
Jul 12, 2008 @ 8:04 pm | delete
- It's an ongoing battle isn't it? 5* and a lensroll to my lens on one of the original junk food joints.
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DianaWalker
Apr 27, 2008 @ 11:35 am | delete
- Hi Susan
Thanks for adding my lens to SquidBoomers
I love your work - You are providing a valuable service to all of us babyboomers!
Nice meeting you on Twitter.
Diana
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Susan52
Apr 27, 2008 @ 11:19 am | delete
- Diana, thank you for this important lens! I've added it to SquidBoomers, both the lens and the blog. You win the prize for having the first submission! (Thanks!)
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