The Hard Cold Facts About Snacks

I am definitely a snacker. I try to eat healthy snacks, but sometimes all I want is sugar and salt. I try to find 'good' snacks that will give me a fix, but they don't always taste good and I end up wasting money. So inmy office, I always kept candy in the dish and some sort of candy dispensing machine. So I must agree, snacks were a downfall to my waistline.

Snacks are the downfall of most people who trying to get healthy. They can be found everywhere in our vicinity. We fight the urge but often lose. Think about your desk at work.

Here are the cold hard facts on snacks.

Top Drawer Fixes: Twenty-three percent of us are ready when a craving hits – we keep a stash of goodies in our desk drawer at work. What you’ll find nestled between the paperclips and Post-its:

1. Candy/candy bars/gum
2. Chips
3. Chocolate

Favorite Food Fixes: Thirty-nine percent of us tear into a bag of chips. Twenty-five perfect dip into the cookie or candy jar. Just 19 percent bite into healthy snacks such as fruit, nuts, low-fat yogurt, and cheese.

- Americans spent more than $32 billion on packaged snack foods last year

- Seventy-six percent of us are impulse eaters, grabbing whatever treats we can get our hands on when we get the urge to snack.

- The best way to stop stress? No contest: Seventy-two percent of us snack to cope with crazy (or just plain crazy-busy) days. Only 28 percent reported turning to exercise for relief. Women are slightly more likely than men to chew their way to calm.

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