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It is said that snacking between meals is bad, and there is a general perception that snacking between meals is bad for your health. But as always, temptation wins when it comes to food.
Snacking is very common and becoming more so. For example, in the early 1970s, U.S. adults consumed about 18 percent of their total calories in the form of snacks. By 2010, that percentage had risen to 23%. Similar numbers have been recorded in the UK, Brazil and Norway.
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Considering how common snacking is, you’d want to know if the popular myths are true. However, a study on the health effects of snacking has found results for dogs’ dinners. As expected, several studies have found that snacking has negative health effects. However, some have found the opposite.
To get a clearer picture, earlier this year Sarah Berry from King’s College London, who is also the Zoe Nutrition App’s lead scientist, and her colleagues looked at experiments conducted in 2018 and 2019. We reanalyzed the data collected as part of the In this study, approximately 850 participants recorded what they ate and when they ate it over two to four days. They were also tested for various measures of cardiovascular health, including blood fat and blood sugar levels.
