A little Dib'll do ya.

"Welcome to the world of Edy's Dibs ice cream bites--a new snack sensation to tempt your sweet tooth," says the label. (They're called Dreyer's Dibs on the West Coast.) "Pop 'em one at a time or by the handful."

Go ahead. Start popping. By the time you reach 26 Dibs--the typical 3 1/2-ounce serving for ice cream that's listed on the Nutrition Facts label you've swallowed roughly 400 calories. You can make that 510 calories for the Peanut Butter Dibs ("with a Peanut Butter center and a Chocolaty coating"). Nothing like a snack with the calories of a Quarter Pounder with Cheese.

Thanks to its mix of coconut oil, palm oil, and cream, each serving of Dibs slips roughly 20 grams a day's worth of saturated fat down your gullet. So even if you have the willpower to stop after just four or five 15-calorie Dibs (good luck), you'll still rack up a fifth of a day's worth of bad fat.

Breyer's four new Ice Cream Poppers Heath, Hershey's Oreo, and Reese's deliver the same "snack sensation" to your defenseless arteries. The food industry seems bent on wrapping chocolate around every ice cream bar, cookie, and granola bar in the store.

Bite-sized, chocolate-coated ice cream snacks? It's Dreyer's, Edy's, and Breyer's way of keeping us a nation of over-sized, blubber-coated snackers.

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