Complementary feeding : Reasons for Increase in Junk Food Consumption: English

1. What is junk food?

2. Reasons for increase in junk food

a. Easy availability of junk food

b. Lack of time by mothers to prepare meals

c. Low cost of junk food

d. Ignorance of child’s likes and dislikes of food by parents

e. Lack of variety in homemade meals

f. Addiction to junk food

g. Effect of mood changes on our eating pattern

h. Peer pressure

3. Misleading advertisements

a. Ways to avoid junk food

b. Being good role models

c. Avoid rewarding

d. Avoid distractions while eating

e. Bringing variety in homemade meals

f. Consideration of child's likes and dislikes

4. Healthy replacements of junk food

5. Guidelines for beverage consumption by adolescents