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The trouble with junk food [1]

It is not in the interest of food companies to advertise what their products contain, but it is in our interest to know

Junk food is junk by its very definition. But how bad is it and what is it that companies do not tell people about this food? This is what the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) laboratory checked. The results were both predictable and alarming. Equally predictable was the response of big food companies and their spokespersons — denials and dismissals. But they are missing the point.

Publication Date: 
23/04/2012
Sunita Narain [2]
Business Standard (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Junk Food [4], Fast Foods [5], Nutrition [6], CSE Study [7], PepsiCo [8], Epidemics [9], Health Effects [10], CSE [11], Sunita Narain [12], Food Process Industry [13], Non Communicable Diseases [14], India [15], Children [16], Child Health [17], Health [18]
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