{"id":20694,"date":"2019-09-03T08:10:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T08:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=20694"},"modified":"2019-09-03T08:10:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T08:10:50","slug":"junk-food-blindness-deafness-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/junk-food-blindness-deafness-teenager\/","title":{"rendered":"Junk food causes blindness and deafness for UK teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to recent reports, a teenager in the United Kingdom (UK) is the first recorded case of severe health impairments (blindness and deafness) caused by the extreme consumption of junk food.<\/b>
\nThe seventeen-years-old British student admits his diet for the past ten years revolved predominantly around fish and chips take away, and processed meat.\u00a0<\/span>
\nAccording to his doctors, the teenager developed a\u00a0 nutritional optic neuropathy (NON), which was caused by the severe lack of vitamins and nutrients in his daily food intake.\u00a0<\/b>
\nSpecialists say that this kind of condition is often witnessed with children living in poor areas, and suffering severe malnourishment. What is more worrying, however, is the fact that this <\/span>Bristol<\/span><\/a> teenager got himself to the point of blindness and deafness, while eating sufficient amounts of food every day. <\/span>Unfortunately, the type of food he liked and ate was not healthy even in the slightest, as it was predominantly junk food and processed meat.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Junk food – a danger to students everywhere<\/span><\/h2>\n

In our modern-day society, access to junk food is fast and easy, which often makes it a more preferred choice than cooking something.\u00a0<\/b>
\nNowadays, <\/span>junk food delivery is possible even with the help of robotic assistants<\/span><\/a>, which makes it better available and considerably cheaper than a spree at the market, for quality ingredients and products.<\/span>
\nUnfortunately, as seen with the teenager from Bristol, an eating regime revolving solely around fast food is very detrimental to a young person\u2019s health.
\nIn order to avoid such extreme cases of sight and hearing loss, schools all around the world should work towards promoting a healthy lifestyle, including lessons on the consequences of eating predominantly junk food.<\/b> While school-provided food has to adhere to certain health regulations, no one can force children to eat at their schools. This is why a serious shift in the way food is spoken about in educational institutions should entail. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to recent reports, a teenager in the United Kingdom (UK) is the first recorded case of severe health impairments (blindness and deafness) caused by the extreme consumption of junk food. The seventeen-years-old British student admits his diet for the past ten years revolved predominantly around fish and chips take away, and processed meat.\u00a0 According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}