Staying Healthy With Soy Protein Bars

!±8± Staying Healthy With Soy Protein Bars

Staying fit and healthy is increasingly difficult in today's modern world of fast food take outs, but if you eat the right foods you can still eat delicious food without putting on the fat.

Soy protein bars are exceptionally good for people trying to lose weight because they combine a number of positive factors which put people on the right path - and keeps them on it. The first and most important thing is taste! You may not believe me, but when it comes to eating proper, healthy food it must taste good! One of the reasons so many diets fail are because people set themselves incredibly unrealistic goals for losing weight. I'm sure we've all seen or at least heard about people starving themselves or trying to survive just eating salad and vegetables - and the reason these diets fail are because the food cannot keep people interested for long. No one likes just eating vegetables, but who said eating healthily is just about eating vegetables?

This is one of the reasons why soy protein bars are so successful, because they're not only healthy for you, but they can actually keep people's culinary attention held as opposed to boring them of taste, and depriving them completely of calories which just ends in people ruining their diets and gorging on lots and lots of the wrong foods.

Staying healthy isn't about dieting, it's not about one day waking up and saying to yourself that you're never having French fries again - it's about making a life style choice. A diet is always doomed to fail, because a diet is a short term solution to a long term problem. A diet is for a week, or a month or 2 months - but if you want to stay fit and healthy you need to stop thinking of food in terms of diets, and think of the situation as a lifestyle choice. If you want to stay fit and healthy, you can't just be healthy for a week; you have to change yourself, your lifestyle, and your habits and so on. It's not easy, which is why there are now such high proportions of obese and overweight people across the world. The problem of the 'obesity epidemic' is no longer contained to the western hemisphere, it's a problem which is penetrated most countries, cultures and communities.

So how do Soy Protein Bars help people remain healthy?

Well they help several key aspects in keeping people healthy, with the most important being weight control and the second aspect is that they're actually healthy. This may seem contradictory but you can be both very unhealthy and slim purely if you eat the wrong types of foods but don't necessarily consume a lot of calories.

How do they assist in weight control?

Soya based protein bars help people maintain a reasonable weight because of the speed at which the energy is released - as well as the total calorific content of each bar being generally much lower than that of a regular candy bar. A modern candy bar can easily contain in excess of around 500 calories, however protein bars range from around 200-300. But frankly, as someone who has lost a lot of weight himself and has seen two friends lose 20-35kg each it's not about the calorific content of the food. If you're serious about losing weight, and want to understand the physiological processes then the first thing you have to do is not fall into the trap of calorie counting every little thing!

Let me explain...

Diets fail frequently, with the root cause being that people simply cannot maintain the diet which they've set themselves on. People cannot maintain diets because people assume diets are all about vegetables, salads, lean meats and so fourth - and although these aspects are important, they're nowhere near as important as what I'm branding the 'hunger factor'.

The hunger factor is as simple as it sounds, we get the feeling, the sensation of hunger in our stomach and so we set out to relieve this pain. When people start drastic diets, they're often hit by this after just a few short days because their bodies aren't used to the dramatic U-turn of the foods that are now being consumed. We cannot ignore our body! When your hand is next to a fire, it hurts and so you pull it away. When you're incredibly hungry, even if you don't want to eat, you'll often find yourself eating what you know you shouldn't even if you know deep down you don't want it.

So if you want to lose weight...

... Then don't allow yourself to fall into the trap that most people do. Don't get hungry!

We've all had that pivotal moment in the failure of a diet, when you're wrestling with your mind as to how to justify eating a chocolate bar even though you're on a diet. Guess what, it's because you let yourself fall into the trap of letting yourself get hungry. We're just animals, and when animals get hungry the first and most powerful response is to eat - to eat as much as possible, to eat the worst foods and to eat right away.

Soy protein bars prevent this because the soya based proteins are very slow to break down. They're similar in a sense to complex carbohydrates because in effect they both release energy at a slow rate. The diets of overweight/obese people are filled with crisps and chocolate bars, and these two foods are composed of some of the most basic molecular structures which means that the calories in a chocolate bar will be released incredibly quickly. If you're running a race then go ahead and chow down, but one chocolate bar, which releases 550 calories in the space of an hour means that around 50-100 calories will be used in maintaining your base metabolic rate. The other 400 or so calories will go right into fat deposits, but what's more frustrating than this is that you won't even feel particularly full.

When you eat a soya based protein bar on the other hand, the calories are released very slowly. So instead of eating a high calorie chocolate bar, with quick releasing sugars that will throw of your energy levels by giving you sugar 'highs' and 'lows' why not go for soy protein bars? They release energy at a slower rate, which reduces the chance of you breaking your diet. They don't give you sugar rushes and lows which means that your energy levels will be far better regulated and you won't having moments of extreme fatigue or unnecessarily high energy. They also contain soya based proteins which contain essential amino acids which cannot be synthesized by the body but are still vital for critical cell processes.

But more importantly than anything I've just said, is that they taste great! You don't need to take drastic action, instead of having a chocolate bar in the day; you can instantly cut your calorie intake by 300 by choosing the healthier option, and then watch the health benefits roll out! So what are you waiting for?!