Healthy Snacks for Snack Lovers

By Zain Naqvi

I love snacks. Be it chips, cookies, cakes, popcorn, I enjoy my fair share of them. One of the common misconceptions about eating healthy is that you have to have a lot of time and a lot of money. Thats absolutely not true. All that healthy eating requires is for you to pay attention and take that extra step of looking at the nutrition label and the ingredients of your item and asking yourself if you think that the product is right to put in your body. In this book, what I hope to do is make eating healthy a little easier. First of all, I have presented an alternative to the nutrition label that you will find easier to read. Then I take all the snack foods that you love and evaluate if they are healthy, whether there is too much sugar or salt or high fructose corn syrup. If your favorite munchies arent too good for you, I have provided a list of some healthy alternatives. Enjoy and, hopefully, pick up some healthy eating tips on the way. In this book, I examine the following categories of snacks: cookies, granola bar, crackers, and chips.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Apr 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781490757377

Zain Naqvi

I am a grade 11 student from Thornhill, Ontario. As with many other kids, I gained some weight around age 12. I admit that I love my share of snacks. Rather then to become a poster child for the obesithy epidemic in North America, I decided to learn about diet and nutrition. I then felt that I should share what little knowledge I had gained with other kids around me. I ran a program in my school that taught kids in grade 5 and 6 how to eat healthier. Then I ran a similar prog in another school in the area.Eventually however, I found that what I really wanted to do is not only teach kids that were around me, but also the ones that I didn’t know. The only way I could affect people that were far from me was to take the humble amount of information that I have gathered and put it into a book. There are many diet books on the market . My aim is to focus on snacks as they contribute significantly to the obesity epidemic. In this book I have reviewed some popular cookies, chips ans granola bars. and have evaluated them based on their nutrition status.

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Contents

Introduction

How to read a nutrition label

MY Proposed Rating Scale -10 Stars System

Cookie

Crackers

Granola Bars

Chips

Cakes

Introduction

I love snacks. Be it chips, cookies, cakes, popcorn, I enjoy my fair share of them. Some common misconceptions about eating healthy are that you have to have a lot of time and a lot of money. That’s absolutely not true. All eating healthy requires is for you to pay attention and take that extra step of looking at the nutrition label and the ingredients of your item and asking yourself if you think that the product is right to put in your body. In this book what I hope to do is made eating healthy a little easier. First of all I have presented an alternative to the nutrition label that you will find easier to read. Then I take all the snack foods that you love and evaluate if they are healthy, whether there is too much sugar or salt or high fructose corn syrup. If your favorite munchies aren’t too good for you, I have provided a list of some healthy alternatives. Enjoy and hopefully pick up some healthy eating tips on the way. In this book I examine the following categories of snacks: Cookies, granola bar, crackers and chips.

Glossary

BASIC KNOWLEDGE:

Before we get started I think it will help to understand some basic terms related to diet.

What is a calorie?

Calories: A calorie is the amount of energy that it takes to heat 1 gram of water to 1 degree Celsius. There are 4.18 joules in a calorie.

A simpler way to think about what a calorie actually is that a calorie is just a unit of energy or work. Work and energy are interchangeable concepts in Physics. So a calorie gives us a certain amount of energy that allows us to do a certain amount of work. Our energy comes from foods and therefore this is one way to look at different types of foods. For example if a food has 50 calories you can think that you are getting 50 units of energy from eating this food.