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Couple of days back I saw a clip by SUN TV News at 7 pm about the side effects of Junk food, both local and international.

The clip was about the high consumption rate of the junk food and the health hazards they pose to Health.

Of late consumption of Health food is on the rise.

I am providing a Link towards the end of the post on the Statistics.

In the TV Clip I was horrified to see a piece of chips/Kurkure( the image was deliberately blurred, I am surprised as to why should Media feel shy of showing the Brand name if its facts are right!), when lit b ya Match stick burned.

It was explained that the Junk food by MNCs contain harmful products including Plastic.

And they also contain high level of Salt, which is injurious to Heart in particular and health in general.

I checked up the web.

I found that there is truth in the accusation.

There is a very high level of Salt in these products.

There was an article in the Times of India on this some time back,and it quoted CSE report on Junk food.

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Delhi-based NGO, Centre for Science and Environment, has alleged that leading food manufacturers are guilty of "large scale misbranding and misinformation" by claiming that their food contained zero trans-fats even though tests showed that they have heavy doses of it.

Most popular "junk foods contain very high levels of trans-fats, salts and sugar - which inevitably lead to severe ill health and diseases like obesity anddiabetes," the CSE said on Friday. It released the results of laboratory tests carried out on 16 major food brands that the young particularly like, such as Maggi and Top Ramen noodles, MacDonald's foods, KFC's fried chicken and Haldiram's Aloo Bhujia. These findings were disputed by the manufacturers.(TOI)"...