Snacks generally refer to sporadic snacks outside the normal meal. Eating snacks properly is good for your health, but eating snacks without restraint is bad for your health. Especially for children who are growing up, snacks are good, but they should be appropriate.
Why is it said that eating snacks without restraint is bad for health?
1. The child's stomach has a small capacity and eats too many snacks, especially snacks before meals, especially sweets, which will affect the child's appetite and amount of food for dinner and the comprehensive intake of needed nutrients. Over time, it will cause the child's malnutrition or malnutrition, thus affecting his growth, development and health. The nutrition needed by the child is mainly taken from the food of three meals a day. If the child is satisfied with three meals, the basic nutrients can be guaranteed without snacks. On the other hand, if you can't get enough nutrients from the dinner, it's bad for your child's development. Not to mention that some high sugar foods bring problems such as dental caries and obesity, and fat foods bring precocious puberty and so on.
2. Almost all children like to eat snacks. Snacks generally have certain nutrients. It's OK to eat some occasionally. If you eat snacks all the time on weekdays without restraint, it will destroy the law of eating three meals, which will not only increase the burden of gastrointestinal tract, but also cause digestive dysfunction. For children with weak digestive ability, it will inevitably lead to decreased appetite, indigestion and digestive system diseases. Make the child lose appetite.
3. And now most snacks contain a lot of food additives and preservatives. Eating too much of these things will have a great impact on your health.
Therefore, you can't eat snacks without restraint. You must have an appropriate amount. Although delicious snacks are tempting, no matter how tempting food is without health.