News tagged with healthy snack

Snacking revisited: Done properly, it's not a bad thing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Turns out, for most people, eating between meals may not be such a bad thing after all.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Probing Question: Are 'superfoods' really nutritional powerhouses?

You’ve probably seen the supermarket tabloid articles with titles like “The 12 Foods Everyone Should Eat” or “Four Foods for Peak Performance.” Every week there’s another berry, grain or bafflingly-named compound that is ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5

Study Shows Not Everyone Has the Same Reaction to Salt

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some individuals may find a recent push by the federal government to reduce salt in processed foods hard to swallow. That's not because those individuals simply enjoy the salty taste of certain ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 8

Candy bar or healthy snack? Free choice not as free as we think

If you think choosing between a candy bar and healthy snack is totally a matter of free will, think again. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research shows that the choices we make to indulge ourselves or exercise self-c ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Unhealthy snacks play on our unconscious

Chances are small that young people will exchange the Mars bar or bag of chips in their hands for an apple or an orange. Even when they know that fruit is healthier and this is widely reported. That unhealthy snacks exert ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0