When buying those 'nutrition bars' you can see on the wrapping they claim to be healthy and good for weight loss or muscle building, but when you read the label, you see a very long list of chemicals, sugars, processed trans fats, and other harmful overly processed ingredients.

There are endless amount of "health bars" and "protein bars" on the market these days that you don't actually know if you are getting something healthy or just junk food in disguise?

If you want to get a truly healthy food bar, you'd need to read carefully the labels. When reading labels on food bars you'll find that the majority of them are pure junk... candy bars disguised through labelling as a health food bar.

Just a few days ago, I was going on a bike ride with a friend and I needed a quick bar for my energy levels.

Well, since I didn't have any bars on me, my friend gave me one of his extra slim fast bar.

You must know that these slim fast bars are marketed as health foods for losing weight.

These food bars are just a poor, not funny jokes...there's nothing even remotely nutritional about them. If you ask me, these slim fast bars are WORSE for you than candy bars!

I read the label just to see what I'm putting in my body. The first ingredient was corn syrup! The second ingredient was sugar (YES more sugar, I love it!), followed by hydrogenated oils (source of deadly trans fats). After that, the list went on with nothing but junk such as artificial flavours, colours, real bad artificial sweeteners, some more hydrogenated refined oils, and to wrap it up there was some highly processed soy protein isolate (which despite popular belief, processed soy is NOT healthy for you... I'll talk in detail about that in a future article) just to give your body some more junk.

So not only are these "weight loss" bars nutritionally poisoning you, but it actually tasted absolutely horrible! It tasted like chemicals and was way too overly sweetened, (why does that not surprise me, with so much sugar, corn syrup, sugar alcohols, AND artificial sweeteners). This is a prime example of "over-engineering" of food.

So how do you tell between a healthy protein bar or energy bar?

A real health bar would have the following: Nuts, seeds, and fruit. When buying a health food bar I also look for organic ingredients and raw ingredients if possible.

A couple of my favourite truly healthy bars are:

1. Organic Food Bars - This is actually the brand name.

Depending on which flavour, these are usually a base of organic almond butter (or cashew butter) with a certain type of fruit, organic seeds, organic biosprouts (quinoa, etc), and some organic rice protein. Some flavors include an organic dark chocolate as well. They also have a line of bars that use exclusively raw ingredients.

Not only are these bars extremely nutritious, but I think they are delicious as well and have a lot of flavors to choose from such as chocolate chip, blueberry, cranberry, high protein, and more.

You won't find these bars at your local grocery store, but I have found them at several health food stores.

2. Larabars - These are even simpler in ingredients than organic food bars. Usually larabars are just 2 or 3 ingredients, and mostly raw... a blend of crushed nuts along with a type of fruit is the usual combination, but they have a lot of different flavors so calories it can vary.

These are also delicious and you will NEVER see a list of chemicals a mile long in their ingredient list... usually just nuts and fruit, and that's it! Simple IS better. This is a very high quality bar. Again, you probably won't find these at your local grocery store, but I've found these at various health food markets.

When you actually find truly healthy bars like these examples above, they make great quick snacks while you are traveling or while you are at work.

I carry some on me almost at all times, just to make sure I have healthy options to eat whenever I need a quick snack, so that I am not tempted by fast food joints or junk food vending machines. Good luck and be sure to read those labels to make sure you're getting a health food bar and not a candy bar in disguise. See below for 5 unique tips to help you lose your stubborn belly fat.

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