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02-02-2012, 05:19 PM
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Lays Barbecue Potato Chips healthy??
I have a somewhat silly question.
I was waiting in line at a store yesterday, and decided to look at the back of a bag of Lays Barbecue Chips (not the baked kind, the original kind). I was somewhat surprised by the fat content on the back, and it led me to wonder if these chips may not be all that unhealthy? Nutrition info: Serving size about 15 chips Total Fat 10g Sat. Fat 1g Trans Fat 0 Polyunsaturated Fat 2.5g Monounsaturated Fat 5g Isn't it 'good' to get a variety of fats in ones diet, including poly and mono unsaturated fats? Would this snack food be deemed 'healthy', based on its fat contents? I don't know, I don't see how eating fried potatoes that have been seasoned to death could be 'good', but that may be my own personal bias in terms of what is a healthy way of getting ones fats. Of course, this product is higher in sodium etc, but what do others think? |
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02-03-2012, 02:40 AM
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Re: Lays Barbecue Potato Chips healthy??
That’s not a “silly question”.
 The human body can consume just about any type of food and not have a detrimental effect, depending on the dose. The emphasis, therefore, has to be on the serving size and the frequency of those servings. You could eat a couple of potato chips every day of your life and not have any problem at all, whereas eating a couple of bags every day of your life could indeed be problematic. The main point to remember about junk food is that it offers very little comprehensive nutrition. In the case of these potato chips, it is pretty much fat and simple carbs that you are eating. Since there are many other foods that have the same approximate fat and carb content, but have a range of other nutrients, too, they would be considered more “healthy”. The serving size that you have listed is for about one ounce of potato chips. In contrast, you could eat five times as much food and get much more nutrition—and still not eat as many calories—if you had four ounces of sweet potato with an ounce of butter. This comparison is the type that causes junk food to be labeled as “unhealthy”. As a once-in-a-while snack in a bulking diet, it would not be a problem, as long as the chips are not displacing the real nutrition required for bodybuilding. In a cutting diet, however, with the need to get as much nutrition as possible from every calorie, the chips would not be a good idea. |
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