I’m not talking about the “typical” junk food (like KFC or McDonalds), instead it’s more on certain aspects of Japanese cuisine being carb heavy or features fried items such as: ramen, agepan, karage, tempura, gyudon, tonkatsu, yakitori, etc. I mean, can ramen or gyudon bowls still be deemed “fast food” even though they appear ‘healthier’ than American fast food.
What do you mean like soda? Unless you’re talking about soda water and diet sodas. Soda is absolutely bad for you and deserves all the bad press. I get what you’re saying about fast food. You can get healthy fast food, but as for soda, it’s really only been more recently with brands like olipop and culture pop can you even start to make an argument that soda isnt explicitly bad for you .
I work in schools. About 20 years ago they banned soda sales at school, so they removed all of the carbonated beverages from the vending machine and replaced them with non-carbonated beverages with as much or more sugar.
I dont think thats an issue of soda getting to much bad press though, its more that other highly processed and sugary drinks didn’t get the bad press as well.