Junk food effects on children health

Running head: LITERATURE REVIEW
Literature review
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1LITERATURE REVIEW
Introduction
The aim of the paper is to review two primary resources to analyse the topic of the
effects of junk food on the school age children. The paper has been divided into multiple parts.
The first part deals with the literature review of the two articles with a clear analysis the same
and the next part talks about the summary of the issue with a conclusion at the end.
Discussion
Sugar-sweetened beverage attitudes and consumption during the first 1000 days of
life. American Journal of Public Health, 108(12), 1659-1665.
The first article taken is "Sugar-sweetened beverage attitude and consumption during the
first 1000 days of life" (Baidal et al., 2018). This article contains the objectives of the study, the
methodology used, their implications and results, conclusion and the relevance of the topic in the
current scenario. It provides a statistical analysis of the same by drawing from interviews, survey
and other quantitative research methods (Baidal et al., 2018). The research topic as chosen by the
author is the impact of junk foods and its implications in obesity for the first 1000 days of life.
The impact of junk food on the school going children has been a debated topic in the academic
field for long. The growing tendency of the new generation of school children towards the
readymade junk foods and beverages have been increasing at a faster rate (Baidal et al., 2018).
This leads to multiple health issues like issues related to the heart. Digestion issues, diabetes,
kidney issue, growth-related issues among children and most importantly the issue of obesity
(Baidal et al., 2018).

2LITERATURE REVIEW
According to data. It has been estimated that the average consumption of junk foods
among the children of the schools in U. S is 12.4% of the total calorie intake in a single day
(Baidal et al., 2018). According to the data published by the National Center for Health
Statistics, over 17% of the total children and adolescents in U. S are currently obese.
The impact of the study of junk food on the health issues of the children is essential from
the psychological perspective is to understand the psychology and mindset of the children for
this higher consumption of the junk foods and to analyze the factors as to what drives these new
generation of children towards this junk foods more than ever in this century. It is to understand
the issue from a different perspective of psychology to provide an alternative view to junk food
consumption. The research problem as indicated by the author is that the problem of childhood
obesity is linked to the study of psychology of the parents (Baidal et al., 2018). It is the negative
attitude of the parents towards the intake of sugar-sweetened beverage and junk foods during the
time of pregnancy and the infancy of their child what creates the habit of higher consumption of
these foods among these children (Baidal et al., 2018). The rationale of the author used in
identifying the issue is the lack of research conducted in this field. The problem statement is used
in forming the research questions. The psychological framework is used as the gap in the
literature, and the research questions are chosen to elaborate the research problem. The
researchers have raised questions like “why do parent chose junk food’? Its argued by the author
that the there have been multiple types of research conducted before which has highlighted the
issue of higher sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among the adults , however there are
very few researches available for the understanding of the same issue among the children and the
mothers during their pregnancy (Baidal et al., 2018). This research tries to analyse the issue of
the habit of junk food consumption is directly linked to the habit of the parents and their health