It is time to stop calling food ‘junk’
What image springs to mind when you think of the word ‘junk’? Trash, clutter, rubbish, worthless, poor quality perhaps?? Using this term for certain foods, therefore, makes the assumption that they are ‘bad’. It attaches moral values to food so that when we eat so-called ‘junk’, we feel immoral. We feel guilt and shame. We […]