Arianna Vargas 10-10-2019

AC2_Paper 2 Section A

B. The excess consumption of junk food is on the rise in your town, which

may have negative effects on residents’ health. You would like to inform

the residents about this issue. Write a text in which you explain the

problem, how it can be overcome, and why it is important to take action.

 Feature Article

o Problem-Solution Article

o Lifestyle Feature
Arianna Vargas 10-10-2019

Junk Food: How

it’s affecting your
life?
After the opening of several fast food restaurants, such as Domino’s and McDonalds, the
consumption of junk food has raised in the local town, which is a great concern to the
authorities, as this kind of food affect people’s health, especially kids, whose growth
development depends in the kind of food they consume.

By Arianna Vargas
New Issue in Town Why is important to take action?

There has been an increase of medical This is a problem that need immediately
reports showing high levels of patients’ action, as it’s not only affecting your
triglycerides, sugars and fats. This is due to health, but also your lifestyle, as people
the opening of fast food restaurants in
behavior depends on the kind of
town, which has influence the decision of
the majority of families to eat outside, nutrition they have. So it’s very
instead of eating homemade food, as junk important to do something about the
food is faster to get and to eat. There are increase in the consumption of junk food
several solutions that can be implemented in this town, because if we don’t, there
in this town, so that the junk food would would be an increase of obese problems,
not be a cause of serious health problems:
eating disorders, illness, hospital patients
Control and family problems.
Maybe it would be easy to reduce the The change depends on how willing
percentage of people going to the hospital people are to take the initiative and
because of food poisoning, if there’s some
change their way of life. We can’t accept
control in the kind of combo they ordered,
that our town drown with this kind of
if people eat small portions, there would
be an improvement in their health as the problems, when we are responsible of
would be not ingesting the same amount what happen on it, the change need to
of junk food to their bodies. come from the parents, the change need
to come from you.
Stay home
Control on the times your family goes to a
fast food restaurant, maybe eat only junk
food on the weekends and in the wee eat
homemade food, more healthy.
Nutritive food for kids
Children need healthy food, a combination
of all the nutrients to grow strong and
without any complication. If your children
eat huge amount of junk food, it can cause
memory, learning and appetite problems.
So a recommendation is to combine all
types of nutrients in the kid’s food so they
would have what is necessary to grow
strong and healthy.