Should junk food advertisements be banned?

Junk food advertisements should not be banned.

Junk food refers to foods that provide more calories and less advanced nutrients (such as protein, minerals and vitamins), such as fried foods such as French fries and fried cakes, biscuits, high-sugar processed foods such as energy bars (Snickers), and various sugary drinks (such as cola); Sometimes it also refers to processed foods that contain more harmful or potentially harmful chemicals, such as charcoal barbecue. Junk food is generally characterized by high sugar, high oil, high salt and high stimulation. These foods can strongly mobilize your senses, stimulate your appetite, excite your brain and produce a pleasant feeling. Eating junk food for a long time will not only cause obesity, diabetes, cancer and other modern civilized diseases due to intake of more calories or harmful substances, but also numb taste buds and make people lose their appetite for light and healthy foods (such as fresh vegetables and fruits, cooked chicken breast, etc.). ) and become dependent on highly irritating junk food. Junk food is the product of industrial civilization and the chief culprit of high incidence of diseases in modern civilization. In essence, the huge economic system of food industry is supported by junk food. If you still don't know the status of junk food in the food industry, you might as well go to the supermarket with questions and see how barren the fresh areas (fresh grains, vegetables, fruits, unprocessed meat, eggs and dairy products, etc.) with health labels are. ) are all (ordinary small supermarkets have no fresh food area), and then look at all kinds of processed junk food with high sugar, high salt and high oil.

If you don't know how to judge whether the processed food is really rubbish, the easiest way is to look at the amount of sugar in the product ingredient list. The higher the ranking, the higher the content. Not surprisingly, you will find that 90% of processed food and sugar are in the top three of the ingredient list. It can be seen that the essence of food industry is a huge commercial system, and its fundamental appeal is to stimulate people's desires and consumption rather than care about people's health. The reason why junk food has become the soul ferryman of the food industry is because its attributes are most in line with the profit-seeking nature of the food industry. It is the inevitable product of the high development of human civilization, and the birth of this big pattern is the law of evolution, independent of human will. Therefore, whether junk food should be banned is a highly dialectical and inconclusive issue. From the perspective of individual health, of course, it should be banned. However, if we jump to a higher dimension, banning junk food will lead to the collapse of the food industry, thus hitting the modern civilized economic system and causing social structure disorder. Moreover, the bosses in the food industry have firmly occupied the commanding heights of interests and firmly controlled the media and consumption orientation. This general pattern cannot be shaken, so the so-called prohibition can only be empty talk, which is impossible to achieve (unless human beings are obviously hit hard and become agricultural civilization). To sum up, in the face of this problem, I can only say that as individuals, we should strengthen our health awareness, learn food science knowledge and refuse the temptation of junk food.