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There's not really any such thing as junk food, but there is such a thing as a bad diet. A bad diet will give you too much of some nutrients that are too easy to get, and not enough of nutrients that are harder to get.

Some things, like heavy binging on sugar and fat, will make you feel crappy within a few hours, typically, although if you do it all the time you won't have a less-crappy feeling to compare it to. Other things will lead you to gradually feel crappy after weeks if you keep it up for that long.

When you're young, your metabolism is faster and you can eat more crappily without gaining weight, typically. This will not generally last. Some people naturally run thin, too, but a high-calorie diet will still lead to higher body fat (in your abdominal cavity), and a high-sugar diet will still do things to your blood sugar. You also probably don't know whether you're someone who carries the genetic tendency to get dangerously high blood pressure from eating too much salt (I happen to know that I don't).

If you're a young woman, the nutrients you're likely to neglect would include iron, certain vitamins (including A and D), and calcium. If you're full from eating those cookies, and so don't eat enough food with these neglected nutrients, that's eventually going to be a problem. Anaemia (lack of iron) is very common, and not fun, and you have to keep it up long term (there's no quick diet fix). Calcium and vitamins A and D are important for bone density, and you're heading for the densest bones you will ever have in your life: if you don't look after them now, you'll only be managing the damage as you age, and you will be cross with your younger self when you have brittle bones!

The "breaking out" thing is just an urban legend.

I have to admit I'm kind of worried about the calcium thing. I eat a lot of different things, but I don't really like milk or yogurt. I should probably start taking tablets. :/

They also make delicious calcium gummies (along with a lot of other tasty gummy vitamins) now, if taking tablets doesn't appeal to you.

Eh, you can find tables online showing which other food contain calcium, so you can work them into your diet instead. Dairy products are just the easiest, so you don't really have to think about it if you're eating a yoghurt and having a bit of milk every day. Sardines and whitebait are also decent sources, because you eat the bones! There's others. Have a look at some lists before you break out tablets.

There's plenty of alternatives to dairy for calcium. I'm lactose intolerant actually, so I'm supposed to avoid the stuff anyways. I don't have my list on hand atm, but it includes things like dark green leafy vegetables and fish (like sardines where the bones are very very edible), not to mention fortified soy/almond/rice/etc. milks.

I don't think the "breaking out" thing is an urban legend, just not an across the board result. I definitely start breaking out and having skin issues if my diet is full of cookies and candies and crappy greasy foods.

The strongest correlation seems to be that women "break out" at certain points in their menstrual cycle, and also crave so-called "junk" at certain points in their menstrual cycle. If you don't know the third factor, it looks like causation.

There are certain very specific spots in specific areas that seem to be linked with certain deficiencies and so on, but that won't lead to periodic breaking out in the same way.

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