Having a Snack Attack? Read This First.
January 16, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Diets and Dieting, Food and Drink, Nutrition, Snacking, Weight Loss, Your Body
Think you’re doing your diet a favor by snapping up those cute little 100-calorie snack packs that come in everything from Oreos to Cheez-Its to fruit snacks? Feel like you’re accomplishing a major feat in your quest for healthy (or controlled) snacking when you pop a pack open? Happy to plunk down whatever coinage is necessary to keep your snack habit under wraps?
Well, sorry m’friends. It’s time to reconsider.
Not only are those prepackaged snacks considerably more expensive than splitting a regular-sized box or bag of your favorite goody into individual servings, researchers at Brown University have also found that we eat the same amount of our junk pick regardless of how they come packaged. Yes, choosing to nosh was more about the availability of it in our homes than anything else.
Want a better choice? Ditch the snack packs and load up on fruits, veggies and whole grains instead. But you already knew that, right?
