junk food
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But today, with our easy access to cheap, calorie-dense junk food and sedentary routines, those same adaptations that once helped us to survive can cause us a few issues.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
“If you’ve only fed them junk food and then you put some beautiful Michelin-star food in front of them, it’ll seem alien to them,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said the government was taking "decisive action" on obesity, including new restrictions on junk food advertising and targets on healthy food sales.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
The monkeys with the most frequent soil consumption munch on tourist junk food that is "high in sugar, high in salt, high in dairy, which the macaques can't digest," said Lemoine.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Sometimes Dad would take me and Andre to Navy Pier so we could ride the Ferris wheel, eat junk food, and watch tourists all day.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
