The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

How to snack responsibly in the new world of health food marketing.

The growth of the primal movement has not gone unnoticed.

Food producers have latched on because, as much as we emphasize foraging the perimeter

of the grocery store, the produce, the meats, the bulk goods, and askewing processed

foods, we remain creatures of convenience.

Not everyone has the time or inclination to personally prepare every single morsel that enters their mouths.

Sometimes we just need something quick and easy to snack on,

and the food industry has risen to the occasion,

offering ostensibly healthy, primal-friendly snack foods.

But are they really healthy?

It's certainly better than previous incarnations of, quote, healthy snack food. I'm thinking of the low-fat craze of the 90s, which spawned such abysogenic fare as non-fat snack wells and

yogurts, which made up for the missing fat with extra sugar,

and the unholy chips cooked in artificial fat your body couldn't even absorb, but that your

underwear certainly could. This era saw obesity and diabetes rates skyrocket. Then there are the

100% real juice products, as opposed to what, I gotta ask. You'd hope the juice is real.

And don't forget about the healthy whole grains, emblazoned across anything with even a hint

of bran and germ. It should just read soon-to-be sugar plus some gut irritants.

The no-high-fructose corn syrup labels that gloss over the fact that they've simply replaced

HFCS with an equal and equal-damaging amount of sugar.

Then there's the fancy names for sugar.

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