energy bars

It is common to see students eating energy bars on campus. Especially on north, it seems like those engineers and architects never have any time to do anything except study. Energy bars for them work perfectly as a meal replacement---they are cheap, doesn’t take a lot of time to eat, provide energy and sometimes provide caffeine too.

I used to eat energy bars as breakfast when I had early morning classes. It worked great. A little bar can fill me for the whole morning. It is not that surprising since each bar usually contains 200-400 calories. The main sources of energy in energy bars are sugar, fat and carbohydrate. It is not that different from ingredients in a candy bar. Some may say that energy bars contain more fiber and other nutrition as well. It is true. However compare to a full meal, the amount of nutrition in energy bar is way less. Not to mention energy bars provide much more fat and sugar and fat than we needed. So apparently eating a healthy full meal is better than having an energy bar.

Energy bars are also some people’s favorite late night study break snack. It’s tasty and provides energy. No one doubts whether it provides energy or not. It’s called energy bar; of course it provides energy. But think about this, pretty much everything we eat provides energy. Energy bar is just an advertising word. Various kinds of nutrition in a meal are more likely to keep you awake. Energy bars pretty much do nothing except adding fat and sugar into your body.

Bibliography

1.Walker, Rob. Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are (p149). New York: Random House, 2008. Print.