After hearing a quarter of adults undo the benefits of their nutritious mealtimes by eating junk in between, a worried Esther Walker has a snack audit
does not, after all, offset unhealthy snacks. I live my entire dietary life on the basis that if I am eating home-cooked, whole foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner, it will offset the Toffee Crisp at 4pm and a handful of crisps at 6pm.
I have a perfectly nice life but I spend the majority of my day rigidly fulfilling a list of duties, mostly to other people. In these two guaranteed down-moments of my day I want to let go of my time-consuming, quite careful diet and bang crisps into my mouth, as if I were 23 again. But is there really nothing in my theory about my breakfast blueberries offsetting the 6pm Tyrrell’s Salt and Cider Vinegar snack? What about the anti-oxidants? The Pac Man free radicals eating the pellets of potato maltodextrin? “You’re not completely wrong about that,” says Maya Oakley, who is a nutritional therapist. “But you have to put it all in context.”
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