The consumption of junk food cause increasing number of children developing type 2 diabetes, a condition once seen only in adults. Nearly fifth of ten years olds are obese clinically and at increased risk of heart attacks, cancer and other life threatening ailments.
Several children consume just half of the suggested quantity of fruits and vegetables, with one in five children do not eat any fruit at all. The disease is associated with obesity which generally occurs only in people those over forty. Approximately three million people in Briton suffer from the condition.
The rates of the disease have increased by seventy-five percent since 2007. The researchers analyzed more than sixty studies into nutrition of children. The findings warned that millions on youngsters are at risk of heart disease and cancer. It was also revealed those kids were also at raised risk of osteoporosis, and anemia.
Such youngsters also face problems with their brain power because they eat the wrong foods reported the study published in the Nutrition and Food Science journal. Most of the kids do not eat enough fibre, vitamin D and other significant minerals like zinc and calcium.
In its place they get to the extent that a third of their calories from junk food rather than the recommended allowance of less than ten percent. Teenage girls are particularly at risk because they continue fad diets which exclude meat and dairy, which are sources of iron, protein and calcium.
As a result they are more prone to suffer from anemia and osteoporosis. Many youngsters neglect breakfast, and have crunchy on the way to school, chips and curry sauce for lunch and then a pizza in the evening, stated Dr Ruxton.