Snacking may help you lose weight
Does your teen consume snacks in smaller proportions everyday or do they tend to eat larger meals? Therein lies the key to a healthy weight loss program.
Recent studies have claimed that teenagers who snack through the day tend to weigh less than those who eat larger meals. Snacking also supposedly helps manage diabetes and cholesterol levels.
During adolescence the body growing need increases and demand more nutrition. Snacks are the best options they provide the necessary nutrition and vitamins and also help satisfy hunger.
Snacking means eating small quantities, number of times in a day. If you eat too much for example more than Snacking but less than a normal meal, it will not help you, snacking does not apply here.
The study helps counter the general belief that snacking is all bad and involved the weight analysis of 5811 children from America, all aged between 12 and 18.
The results of the study claimed that abdominal obesity (a standalone risk factor of diabetes) was 24 percent higher amongst teenagers who ate larger meals as compared to a low rate of just 11 percent amongst teenagers who snacked four times a day.
Even the general level of those obese or overweight was higher at 40 percent in the no-snacking category, as compared to 30 percent amongst teenagers who snacked twice a day and 28 percent amongst those who snacked thrice a day and 22 percent amongst those who snacked the maximum of four or more times a day.
Although the study took into account factors such as TV viewing hours, exercise levels, ethnicity, and income etc the results did show that snacking did help lower the risk of being obese.
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