Yummy Fitness

Generally I like to get it as much food as I can organic and locally grown. It’s not always possible to do that, and with the price of food going up is actually not extremely easy to find good places to get good food that’s cheap.

Yesterday I happened to run across a really neat fruit/vegetable stand that had local and mostly organic foods and the prices were pretty reasonable, so I decided to get some groceries there. It was really a fun place to shop and I as I was going to the front counter to check out I saw that they had some little treats for sale and the treats said that they were “healthy” with all sorts of marketing around the packaging that said “feel good cookie.” It was made without wheat or gluten and only using expeller pressed canola oil and good fiber and protein and 30% of your daily value of calcium.

If you look at the back of their packaging it also said that the company was inspired to bake vegan goods by the discovery that animal products contribute to his diseases like heart disease, obesity, cancer, diabetes etc.

So from looking at all of the marketing around this “healthy” chocolate chip cookie made only from fruit and evaporated cane sweeteners you’d think that you’re doing yourself a favor and being really “healthy” by eating this.

But if you’re trying to lose weight, you’d be extremely wrong.

What they don’t tell you on the front of the package (and what you should really be careful about) is that you should always look at the nutritional information for any food, even “healthy food.” Don’t get me wrong here, this very well may be healthy choice from a strictly “nutrition standpoint” with its ingredients and it may fit in with your personal values if you are a vegan or if you can’t or don’t eat wheat products.

But what they are not telling you’ll on the front of the packaging and all their marketing is that this little “healthy” treat can dramatically set you back on your weight loss goals.

What could be so bad about such a “healthy” cookie? Well right there in the fine print of the nutritional facts this little 3 ounce cookie has 450 calories per serving it has 65 g of carbohydrates and 11 g of fat.

And although on the front of the package it brags it has “good fiber and protein” it only has 4.6 g of protein in the entire bar. Folks, that’s about 1% protein.

In other words for every 100 calories of other “stuff” inside that cookie you’re only getting 1 g of protein. That’s not what I call a good source of protein, especially when something like chicken breast has 80% or more protein. In fact most ice cream has less calories per serving and more protein than this “healthy” treat.

So be really careful what you consider to be healthy. Healthy does not always mean “good for losing weight.” Especially in this case where three of these cookies good completely bust you for the entire day for most people’s weight loss requirements.

Sometimes it’s actually better to eat some ice cream than to eat a “healthy” calorie packed cookie. And let me tell you, it’ll probably taste a heck of a lot better too!

Here’s some pictures of the “healthy” cookie next to a 5 dollar bill so you can see how “big” it was, and I also included a picture of the nutritional facts, so you can see for yourself.

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