How skinny is Skinny Cow Icecream Sandwiches?

Here is an interesting article that was emailed to me today!

Hey Kandace check this out.

I dont eat these but my daughter asked me to get them for her because she/we thought they were healthy. Not so!! Shocking stuff!

I thought your readers might like this article…

Best,

Karen

Over the weekend while out with a buddy we stopped in a local convenience store in an attempt to find a healthy snack (tall order, I know). While I made my way over to where the pistachios and other nuts were, he reached inside the frozen food case and pulled out a Skinny Cow vanilla ice cream sandwich made by Nestle®. “Hey this is healthy", he said. "It’s only got 140 calories, 1.5 grams of fat and 3 grams of fiber. It says it right here on the label.” However, upon further review of the back of the label (there was a convenient fold covering up all of the unflattering nutrition information) this small ice cream sandwich is STUFFED with chemicals I call obesity additives. Here are the whopping 33 ingredients and my comments after some of them: Skim milk Bleached wheat flour (acts like sugar in the body) Sugar (the main cause of belly fat) Caramel color (the same junk they color soft drinks with) Dextrose (sugar) Palm oil Corn flour (most likely from genentically modified [GMO] corn) High fructose corn syrup (causes extreme cravings; most likely GMO) Corn syrup (ditto) Baking soda Modified corn starch (most likely GMO) Mono and diglycerides Soy lecithin Cocoa Sugar (again) Corn syrup (again) Polydextrose (sugar) Whey protein Cream Calcium carbonate Inulin Natural flavor (this is a joke considering all the unnatural flavors) Propylene glycol monostearate (ugh… more on this below) Microcrystalline cellulose Sodium carboxymethylcellulose (that’s a mouthful) Guar gum Monoglycerides Sorbitol (a sugar alcohol) Carob bean gum Citric acid Vitamin A palmitate Carrageenan (a seaweed extract) Salt So as you can see, this may be a low fat ice cream sandwich, but don’t think for a second that this “Skinny Cow” is a healthy food choice that’s going to help you or your family lose flab. This is a nutrient dead “Frankenfood.” By this I mean that it’s not even a real food, it’s just a chemically-altered food-like substance. They should call it “dead meat” instead of “skinny cow”. Really, really, bad. And it gets worse: Propylene Glycol Monostearate (ingredient #23) is found… As a working fluid in hydraulic presses As a coolant in liquid cooling systems To regulate humidity in a cigar humidor As the killing and preserving agent in pitfall traps, usually used to capture ground beetles As an additive to pipe tobacco to prevent dehydration To treat livestock ketosis As the main ingredient in deodorant sticks As a solvent used in mixing photographic chemicals, such as film developers As an ingredient in the production of paintballs The College of Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State says this about propylene glycol monostearate: “Slightly more toxic than propylene glycol in animals, and in large doses produces central nervous system depression and kidney injury." Yumbo! So while my friend wolfed down this artificial piece of toxic waste, I stuck with all natural pistachios. All that said, if you REALLY want to know how to lose fat quickly this January, I've put together a step-by-step fat burning meal plan for you at this link: ==> Exactly what to eat for rapid fatloss (meal by meal) Enjoy! Coach Josh ----- Josh Bezoni Co-Founder, BioTrust Nutrition