Snack-Attack Nation

In the U.S. snacking is a $30 billion industry that has increased 33% since 1988, according to the U.S. Snack Food Association, with high-fat, high-calorie options, such as pork rinds, cheese, and corn snacks, leadingsales. It seems downright un-American not to snack.

Still, according to a 1998 survey conducted by the Calorie Control Council in Atlanta, Ga. 43% of
adult Americans blame snacking as the reason they can't maintain their desired weight. "Snacking can be detrimental to weight loss because you're confronting food more often," says Karen Miller-Kovach, MS, RD, chief scientist at Weight Watchers International, in which case, it's often harder
to stop eating once you've started. Snacking also can be fattening because it contributes to total calorie consumption.

According to a 1993 study published in the medical journal Appetite, which managed to find 273 obese French women, those in the study who snacked (60%) ate more at meals and between meals than those who didn't. "The less often you eat, the fewer calories you consume," says David Levitsky, PhD, professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., who has conducted numerous studies on snacking. According to Levitsky, when people are allowed snacks, they may eat as much at their next meal as if they didn't snack. All told, snackers tend to consume more total calories than nonsnackers, Levitsky says.

From WebMD

On Wellness

To sustain top performance, we must develop and maintain balance in our lives - between work and play, between the fiscal and the physical, between duty to others and duty to ourselves.

In today's fragmented and pressured pace, achieving wellness - the combined condition of your physical and mental health - is often an early casualty of too many options. It takes a smart, even artful, integration of lifestyle and workstyle to create a balanced life, one that is smoothly conducted with vigor, intelligence, and individuality.

If you don't take care of your mind and body, where else are you going to live?

Jim Tunney - Former NFL Referee / Motivational Speaker

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