Junk food has been created to deliver pure pleasure through generous combinations

of fat, sugar and salt.

Furthermore, It's fast, available in every fast-food, gas station, supermarket, movie
theater and vending machine in America.
But there's only one problem with junk food, by definition, it’s food that contains little
or no nutritional value while delivering huge amounts of calories through fat, sugar and salt.
The emergence of fast food was carried by the rise of automobile culture and the
suburbanization of American cities in the 1950s.
If at the very first ordering a burger and fries at the "drive-thru" was just a useful
novelty, it's soon became an American institution.

The thing that made junk-food that popular is first of all the very low prices of the
products which is due of the very low price of bad corn that makes cheap corn syrup for
sodas and cheap corn feed for cows that result to a low quality meat.
That allows junk food and fast-food companies to sell their highly processed food
products for a lot less than healthier restaurants or food.
Thus the reason why junk food is that popular is also because most of the
consumers were overworked or underpaid people, many Americans that don't have the time
or means to cook healthy meals.

Unfortunately the over consumption of junk food has been directly connected to
higher rates of obesity, increased risks of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and even
depression.
A diet that's high in sugar and saturated fat like sodas, fries and white flour is one of
the most important causes of the obesity in America.
More than 1/3 of American adults are obese, and kids are following the trend. 21% of
adolescents between 12 and 19 years old are obese, and 18% of children from 6 to 11 years
old are too.