cross-posted from: https://lemmynsfw.com/post/21322477
'Consequences of eating junk food' is one of the later steps in the complicated process of obesity being caused. And is not as much absolute as it is a symptom of adopting a normal modern lifestyle with all its flaws.
It is popular sentiment however, the statement used. And wrong. Avoiding 'junk food' (carbohydrates, fats, glocuse etc) is merely going a roundabout way by pushing away the (otherwise useful) stuff that reacts badly due to a problem, rather than actually solving the problem.
I've gotten rid of my own obesity from the past (used to be obese since childhood) despite people enforcing these views. Carbohydrates and fats have become essential to me, rather, due to the energy giving attributes. But it was only after dealing with the problem—I did so by using the method of being better able to handle my needs by my own effort (using earned money to hire others' services doesn't count towards 'doing be own effort', for this objective) rather than service of others or tools, and starting small in the endeavour but improving on it all the time without giving up—that consuming such things did not contribute to obesity.
Still, making the used statement anywhere is pretty harmful and aids the malicious. Mainly due to how inaccurate it is the the overall case. It is merely the misunderstood perception of a common occurrence which in turn is merely a part (rather than the whole) of one of the more-than-single causes, and therein lies the problem. I'm being serious.