Junk food is damaging to the health. We all know that.

But to what extent?

A study at the Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Centre (ÉPIC) of the Montreal Heart Institute shows that merely eating one junk food meal can hamper the dilation of your arteries. When researchers fed volunteers a sandwich that contained sausage, egg and cheese along with hash browns, their arteries lost 24 percent of their ability to widen.

Just one meal.

Will you let your child eat that again? Will the child be grateful that you indulged his whim, when at the age of 24 he is diabetic and has high blood pressure?

Just one single meal.

Doesn’t this look more appetising? Choose this instead. It’s full of antioxidants, which are flavorful and will help keep you alive longer, and healthier for longer.