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Notice that I said "health" and "diet-friendly," as opposed to simply healthy foods. This is because the article isn't about increasing the proportion of nutritious foods like fruits and vegetables in the diet. It's about how dieters who eat things like YoCrunch's fun yogurts fail to loose weight. YoCrunch is a brand of low fat yogurt that comes with mix-ins that include crushed Oreo cookies, M&Ms and Reeses Pieces.
I'll venture out on a limb here and say that the dieters who believe that eating any product with candy mixed into is a "healthy" thing to eat are fooling themselves. Just because the yogurt is low fat, that doesn't mean that the crushed-up candy is, too. And beyond that, pretending that it is a "health food" is just silly. Is a product like YoCrunch better than, say, a deep fried Snicker's bar? Of course, but if that's your dieting criteria, you might have to reconsider before you actually lose any weight.
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5-22-2006 @5:31PM Jared said... Perhaps if people stopped eating prepared/boxed foods aimed at dieters in general, and instead ate real food (fruit, veggies, lean meat, fish, etc.) they wouldn't be so "confused." Something I read lately pointed out that if you shopped around the grocery store perimeter, you'd end up with a cart full of food, and not pre-packaged junk that filles the aisles. Seems reasonable.
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5-23-2006 @1:46PM Mary said... It's not just the candy-branded yogurts either. Most commercially available flavored yogurts are full of high fructose corn syrup, and many more than 30g of sugar per serving. You might as well really treat yourself and have a soda or a candy bar.
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5-23-2006 @1:52PM Bruce Dearborn Walker said... The diet foods are all in the produce section of your grocery store.
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