Couture frozen yogurt, low fat peanut butter on whole wheat bread, and baked chips washed down with a diet soda. These are healthy snacks, right? Wrong.
We have ourselves convinced that tasty snacks are healthy because we've trained our bodies to think healthy snacks aren't tasty. And which do we crave? The tasty ones, of course. Not ones to miss an opportunity to capitalize on our misfortunate choices, the food industry and restauranteurs alike seem to have joined forces in a crusade to convince us that eating fat free, low fat, antioxidant rich, no trans fat, 100% whole wheat, and myriad of other catch-phrased food is actually good for our bodies. We allow them to continually develop dishes and packaged products in marked-up snack pack sizes or backed by recognizable "diet" companies because we like to trick ourselves; it's easy to believe.
For more: Junk Food Hiding Among Us: Low Fat Snacks Do Not Always Equal Healthy Foods - Driven
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