 | Holistic Wellness | | Linda Taylor, Certified Holistic Health Counselor |
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NEWS YOU CAN USE
Energy Bar Junk Food:
Your Energy Bars Are Likely Cleverly Designed Junk Food
By Mike Geary
You see them all over the place these days... nutrition bars that claim to be healthy and good for weight loss or muscle building, but when you read the label, you see an endless list of chemicals, sugars, processed trans fats, and other harmful overly processed
ingredients. There are so many types of "health bars" and "protein bars" on the market today, how do you know if you are actually
getting something healthy or just junk food in disguise?
You really need to know how to read labels if you're going to find a truly healthy food bar. In my opinion, these slim fast bars are WORSE for you than candy bars! The first ingredient in the bar is: corn syrup! Then the second ingredient is sugar
(hooray more sugar!), followed by hydrogenated oils (source of deadly trans fats). After that, the list went on with nothing but junk such as artificial flavors, colors, artificial sweeteners, more hydrogenated refined oils, rounded out with some highly processed soy protein isolate (which despite popular belief, processed soy is NOT healthy for you) just to give your body some more junk. So not only are these "weight loss" bars a disaster nutritionally for you, but the bar tasted absolutely horrible!
It tasted like chemicals and was way too overly sweetened (not a surprise with all of the sugar, corn syrup, sugar alcohols, AND
artificial sweeteners). This is a prime example of "over-engineering" of food.
So how do you determine a healthy protein bar or energy bar? I look for simplicity in a good bar. Many of the healthiest and tastiest bars I've found have only a couple basic ingredients such as nuts, seeds, and fruit. I also look for organic ingredients and raw ingredients if possible. A couple of my favorite truly healthy bars: 1. Organic Food Bars base of organic almond butter
(or cashew butter) with a certain type of fruit, organic seeds, organic biosprouts (quinoa, etc), and some organic rice protein. Some flavors include an organic dark chocolate as well. They also have a line of bars that use exclusively raw ingredients. You won't find these bars at your local grocery store, but I have found them at several health food stores. 2. Larabars - These are
even simpler in ingredients than organic food bars. Simple IS better. This is a very high quality bar. Again, you probably won't find these at your local grocery store, but I've found these at various health food markets. When you actually find truly healthy bars like these examples above, they make great quick snacks while you are traveling or while you are at work.
Good luck and be sure to read those labels to make sure you're getting a health food bar and not a candy bar in disguise.
Contact Linda at 215-247-7874 Linda@cook2raw.com
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