That nibble you have between breakfast and lunch may be causing you to shed weight more slowly than if you were not having that snack. Research published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association found that women who have this snack lost 7 percent of the body weight, compared to the 11 percent that women who did not have the snack.
The researchers believe this may be due to the short time period between breakfast and lunch, perhaps making the snack more something you have out of habit rather than hunger.
Another tidbit from the study? Women who report snacking twice a day consume more fibre than those who don’t snack twice or more daily.
(To store your post-workout carbs (and your candy stash, we all deserve a gummy bear now and then!), check out these canisters above from Jonathan Adler; spotted them at his shop in San Fran).
November 29, 2011
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This has me reconsidering late-night snacking: getting outta bed to have a snack is linked to tooth loss later on in life says a study from University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Just makes that Pop-Tart not seem worth it.
June 14, 2010
I’m just back from chillin’ in Napa, Calif., with Oakley ambassadors Katrina Hodgson and Karena Dawn and a bunch of other media and retail peeps. Well, that’s if you can call running a 5k race, hot-air ballooning, bicycling (granted, it only consisted of a few short rides–from one winery to the next) and hiking in Bothe-Napa Valley State Park “chilling.”
K & K have their own company, Tone It Up, in Manhattan Beach, Calif., where they work as personal trainers promoting a healthy, active lifestyle and the ladies could not be sweeter.
But I may have simply been swayed by their deelish Peanut Butter Bites, a raw snack they’d prepped for the group as pre-hike fuel–what the Bites lack in looks, they make up for in flavour, trust me.
Make up your own batch using the recipe from Katrina and Karena’s blog. And check out their travel workout (something I wish I’d been inspired by before my six-hour wait in Denver’s airport).
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May 20, 2010
