With eating addiction eating away at youth health, fast food ‘accelerates’ puberty in girls
A boy poses with a chicken burger at a fast food restaurant in Taipei. — Reuters/File As a result of young people’s addiction to fast and junk food, many are living with heart disorders and some have died prematurely from heart attacks. Its consequences for pregnant mothers and their unborn babies are no different. Experts claim that fast food intake is a major contributor to increased obesity, early puberty in girls and health complications in infants, and is also linked to mental disorders such as anxiety and depression. First, we need to understand what is the difference between junk food


