Are dry roasted peanuts a healthy snack?

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How can something be “very flling” and “low in calories” at the same time? Do you mean physicall filling (large volume)? If so, is water the ideal snack?

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[nitpick: it’s “curb” not “curve”]
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I can’t believe I typed ‘curve’.

Again, an apple is an example of a food that is more filling than peanuts but has far fewer calories. Someone offered up a ‘big salad’ as a way to get full but consume fewer calories, and that is the idea behind smart snacking, too.

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How can something be “very flling” and “low in calories” at the same time? Do you mean physicall filling (large volume)? If so, is water the ideal snack?

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There’s a thing called a “satiety rating” where potatoes, for instance, rank very high (in other words, they get rid of your hunger). High Fructose Corn Syrup ranks very very low. I am not sure where peanuts lie in that.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=7498104