Comments on: Make Over Your Snacks: How to Satisfy Your Cravings and Still Stay Slim

By: suzy

suzy — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:50:40 +0000

I didn’t know that soup or olive tapenade were sold in vending machines.

By: victoria

victoria — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:31:43 +0000

How about healthy snacks for kids after school. Hummus, which has many different flavors, with carrot sticks or celery sticks, yogurt with fresh grainola, air popped pop corn.Hard boiled eggs.
Kids and adults are way to heavey, they need better alternatives than all those processed foods, yuk!
And of coarse if you saw what they serve in the cafiteria’s in middle school you’d vomit! discusting.

By: normal

normal — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:27:10 +0000

Quit stressing and enjoy life. I agree that none of these are good options, but suppose you truly are staring at the vending machine -then choose one that sounds good and that you feel comfortable putting in your body. Besides that, this BS about saving “50 calories” by eating something that wasn’t exactly what you wanted is not only a ridiculous way to give people another meaningless issue to worry about, it will completely backfire when later on you compensate. So those 50 calories that you “saved” are completely lost when the popcorn doesn’t cut it and, gosh darn it, you wanted the goldfish and go back and get the fish. I feel I’m an authority to say this because all I do is eat whatever I want, as long as there are no artificial sweetners, processed sugars, non-whole grains, etc. -which is surprisingly easy if you just look- AND I have a great figure that gets both verbal and non-verbal compliments. Clearly I’m doing something right, and I’ll tell you it surely isn’t worrying about “50 calories”. Maybe it’s because I spend that energy and effort actually DOING something and not worrying about Snackwells versus Crunch and Munch, and that actually burns calories. Who knows?!!!

By: hezzy

hezzy — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:13:55 +0000

Ya know i fund it quite interesting that such a “snack” could be seen as healthy for a snack no less but i guess that is 1 of the uppers of being an adult!!

By: Parth

Parth — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:11:11 +0000

I Agree with sigy’s point and would appreciate his time.

By: mc

mc — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:03:20 +0000

So how many people in this country are allergic to peanuts?

How fat are they?

By: DR

DR — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:51:47 +0000

Yeah, we missed the point.

Kraft, Nestle and the 47 MILLION Americans with metabolic syndrome got it right.

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/ms/ms_whatis.html

By: bryanb

bryanb — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:42:54 +0000

Siggy and DR you completely missed the point. All they’re saying is you’re better off with a 150 calorie rice krispie treat than you are with a giant 500 calorie chocolate chip cookie. Some people are just never going to eat soup, fruit, or low fat cream cheese dip because they don’t taste as good as the more fatty/sugar-filled options. One doesn’t have to be perfect to make a beneficial improvement in their diet.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:52:28 +0000

I believe the reason they posted this wasn’t for people who had the choice of (admittedly much healthier) snacks that you’ve mentioned. They posted it for the people who are standing in front of the vending machine full of unhealthy stuff, looking for the least of all evils. Though I would have preferred that they made that clearer!

By: DR

DR — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:29:46 +0000

They are also processed foods. How about SWEET – fruit, CHEWY / SALTY – dried fruits & nuts or olives, Choclaty – Hot cocoa, no sugar and warmed milk – milk gets sweeter as it warms.

Better choices would be soup (lots of volume with fewer calories) – chopped veggies and dip (hummus, olive tapenade,low fat cream cheese dip)

If you are looking at supplements – the PGX product is a natural fiber that turns into a viscous gel in you belly to create a sensation of fullness – good product with no bad side effects.

Here is some info on how apples (a great snack) also help prevent metabolic syndrome – http://healthhabits.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/apples-lower-metabolic-syndrome-risk/

I can see the marketing plan now – Apples, a great snack that keeps you from dying – okay, it needs a little work, but you get the point.