Originally published September 26 2005
Corn, bean and fried vegetable chips are all fried, therefore lacking in healthy nutrients
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Given the rising number of marketing ploys, there's an explosion of snack food choices: Corn chips, bean chips, spinach chips, apple chips, etc. While some of these snacks are markets as more "healthy," don't be deceived. Most chips are dipped in oil and lack ingredients essential for good nutrition.
The hallway in our dorm has begun the academic year with a dispute about snack chips.
The question is whether corn chips, bean chips or any of the other types of fried vegetable chips are any better for you than plain potato chips.
The nutrition-facts panels on the packages are not much help.
The corn or bean chips are slightly higher in some nutrients, while the potato chips have more of other nutrients.
These vegetables are usually present in small proportions, usually in combination with corn.
To date, there are apple, pear, peach and banana chips, but if these catch on, bits of the entire harvest may find their way into the deep-fat fryer.
If a package doesn't have any nutritional information to scrutinize, you can assume that such snacks will be about 7 to 10 grams of fat per 12- to 15-chip serving.
If you find yourself drawn to them, stick with brands made with non-hydrogenated canola oil, peanut oil or high-oleic safflower oil.
DEAR DR. BLONZ: I read the response you wrote concerning the dangers of ephedra and wanted to say that I agree with your conclusions.
I am a doctor of Oriental medicine and wanted to comment that when it is used properly as a medicine for the treatment of respiratory conditions, ephedra is prescribed in small doses for short durations.
Any use at all in any dose for weight loss is a misuse of a legitimate herbal medicine.
One of the problems with the entire ephedra debacle is the fact that this substance has a legitimate historic use in Oriental/herbal medicine.
This fact was turned into a marketing tool for those selling ephedra-containing weight-loss treatments and performance-enhancing dietary supplements.
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