Are Potato Crisps Really Bad For You ?

I'm quite fed up with reading this rubbish. If you want to know the truth, LOOK at the label. Whilst crisps are indeed high in fat and salt when compared weight for weight, the weight of a typical bag of crisps is very little compared to the weight of most other snacks. Look at what's in one of the healthier types of crisps, typically corn type snacks; maybe quavers, french fries etc. I was recently sat at a table with a friend who was nagging me about how unhealthy crisps were because of the fat and salt. She was eating a "healthy" breakfast cereal. I look at the 2 packets and found she was eating about 7 times the salt and 4 times the fat that I was! Ok, there will be good things in the cereal too which isn't in the crisps, but as I also eat plenty of other healthy food, I will get all I need in the course of the day. If you are going to make this rediculous comparison to veg fat (which isn't saturated anyway so isn't so bad), then compare to other foods, it's meaningless without a comparison. What if you ate a bowl of fruit and nut cereal every day? As a rough comparison I've just looked at a packet of crisps (not even lower fat ones) and some fruit n nut cereal and there's 3 times more fat in the cereal, so I'd be eating 3 bottles of veg fat then if I eat that for breakfast every day!
My conclusion: Crisps, if you pick the healthier ones, are not bad for you at all, as long as you don't eat excessive amounts and you ensure you get enough nutrients from other food. Eat a packet a day and enjoy!

Like everything else in life a little bit of anything is not necessarily a killer, but eating potato crisps on a very regular basis is not beneficial to health.
A recent medical research project came up with the warning that if we eat a packet of crisps per day we may as well drink a whole bottle of vegetable fat. This is taken over the whole year, ie 365 packets of crisps equals one bottle of vegetable fat, which is a scary prospect.
Potato crisps also contain a lot of salt and they are packed with flaourings which although delicious offer little nutitional effect.
However, if you really love crisps then it is probably not feasible that you will be able to just give them up forever. Start by cutting down the numbers of crisps you eat, then keep cutting down until they become a once a week treat. Eating them in this amount should be fine for health.

Ye full of salt ma dog

I just ate 6 packets in a row and feel pretty bad now.

Because you get fat