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Diet CARE

WISE OR WICKED? Snacks

A snack, Wikipedia assures us, is “ a portion of food, smaller than a regular meal, generally eaten between meals”. On hearing the word, most of us will immediately think of foods like peanuts, chips, chocolate or energy bars, cookies, salted biscuits and sweets. And with the thought will come an instant desire to savour one! Together with a guilty feeling, because we have been taught by all the wise nutritionists that they are unhealthy and therefore consumption is unwise!

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