Snacks are the foods eaten on the go between main meals. Usually this category includes sandwiches, chips, cookies, crackers and all kinds of sweets.
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The harm and benefits of snacking
To suppress the feeling of hunger that occurs during the working day, often high-calorie foods that do not provide long saturation are used. After chocolate or a packet of chips, thoughts about food come back very quickly. It turns out that more than 300 kilocalories were eaten completely in vain.
Snack foods high in fast carbohydrates are also harmful. Butter baking and sweets are quickly absorbed by the body, they sharply increase blood sugar, but they cannot satisfy hunger for a long time. A healthy snack should be balanced, it must necessarily contain different nutrients: carbohydrates, proteins and fats. A longer saturation effect is provided by healthy foods with a low calorie content: fruits, vegetables, grain breads, low-fat cottage cheese and cheese.
You can not completely get rid of snacks. They help to satisfy a small hunger, which in the future will prevent overeating. Thanks to snacks, the digestive system receives a full and uniform load throughout the day, the feeling of fatigue decreases, the mood improves and physical and mental performance increases. Blood sugar is constantly maintained at a normal level.