Snacks are a part of the lives of people who eat split meals. These small meals are designed to keep you from getting too hungry between breakfast, lunch and dinner. Snacks can be both healthy and dangerous.
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The main danger of snacking is that people often consider such a meal as irrelevant and do not include it in their daily diet. In this case, a person can first eat a few nuts, after half an hour - a candy, after another half an hour - drink tea with cookies. With such a diet, even dietary breakfast, lunch and dinner will not save you from obesity, because if you count all the calories, due to snacks, you will increase your daily calorie intake by 2-3 times.
Step 2
Snacks served late in the evening or at night are also unsafe. If you do not limit yourself to a glass of kefir, such a meal will cause additional excess fat to appear on your waist. And since heavy food will keep your stomach busy for most of the night, you will not sleep well.
Step 3
Another danger of snacking is unhealthy foods that people often choose. Many people rush to satisfy their hunger with sweets, crackers, chips, soups and instant noodles. Such dishes are very high in calories, because are high in simple carbohydrates and are unhealthy due to additives, flavor enhancers and salt.
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The most dangerous quick snack is fast food. Hamburgers, French fries, nuggets, grilled chicken, shawarma, and other fast food items are high in fat and unhealthy additives, but low in nutrients. These foods are often prepared in unsanitary conditions using low-quality products. As a result, you can not only gain excess weight, but also get sick.
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The harm caused by the wrong foods chosen for a snack is often exacerbated by a person by eating on the run, poorly chewing large chunks. It is unlikely that such a meal will benefit your body; rather, you will have gastrointestinal problems in a few years.
Step 6
To make a snack healthy, you need to follow some rules. Do not eat on the run - this will negatively affect the functioning of the stomach. Take a few minutes to enjoy your snack in peace. The portions for this meal should be small, so it won't take long.
Step 7
Snack only on healthy and high-quality foods: yogurt, kefir, berries, bananas, apples, dried apricots, almonds, boiled chicken breast. You can also eat a few slices of chocolate, but only dark. Fresh vegetable salads are also acceptable for snacks - they will help you hold out until the main meal and improve stomach function.
