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Is snacking necessarily bad for you? How can you cut down if you're trying to lose weight?
Channel News Asia ^ | 03 Oct 2022 | Khoo Bee Khim

Posted on 10/03/2022 3:53:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway

How do you stop raiding the office pantry for snacks? And why do some people crave salty snacks, while others prefer sweet treats? We put down our bag of chips to ask the experts.

It’s 3pm and like clockwork, your brain – and colleague – are nudging you to make that trip to the office pantry for coffee and snacks. Or if you’re working from home, you can’t help but be drawn to the fridge like, every five minutes.

Why are you hardwired to snack, especially when you’re trying to lose weight – and if the boss is reading this over your shoulder, you’re also trying to stay focused on your work?

It is likely that you have been “conditioning” yourself to want to snack your whole life. Well, maybe not your entire life but from the age of five onwards, according to Professor Tai E Shyong, the centre director of NUHS Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention & Management. Below five, “the regulation of food intake is very biological”, that is, your eating pattern is dictated by your hormones.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: fasting; food; health; metabolicdisease; snacking; snacks
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1 posted on 10/03/2022 3:53:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Get yourself a POLST form from your doctor with a do not resuscitate order on it and hang it on your refrigerator door. It’ll keep you out. LOL


2 posted on 10/03/2022 4:01:06 PM PDT by Gman
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Working is a good way to cut down. I find that when I’m idle, I think more of my stomach. However, when I’m working, and have my mind on my work, I don’t think of food.


3 posted on 10/03/2022 4:03:49 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: nickcarraway
you may have been filling your afternoons with snacks such as salted egg fish skin chips washed down with bubble tea

Can't say that I have.

4 posted on 10/03/2022 4:06:07 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: nickcarraway
How do you stop raiding the office pantry for snacks?

Who's buying all that junk? Why be a hapless victim. I suppose it's like TV -- 500 channels and nothing's on, yet people are addicted.

5 posted on 10/03/2022 4:16:43 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man.)
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“And why do some people crave salty snacks, while others prefer sweet treats?”

I like both, though separated a bit in time.


6 posted on 10/03/2022 4:18:04 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: nickcarraway

Don’t put down snacks. Use them as opportunities to compliment your weight control plan. Snacking can help keep your hunger levels on an even keel, especially on days when your meals are spaced further apart. However, it’s important to make healthy snack choices.

Eating a snack is better than letting yourself become ravenously hungry. This can lead to poor food choices and excess calorie intake during your actual meals. It is also a perfect time to supply good foods like vegetables and fruits that can boost your energy levels between meals and encourage exercise or offering the energy to your job and recreation. And as long as you compensate for the calorie intakes at your next meal, it will have no effect on your intake needs.

An example is a daily diabetic diet. Many healthcare providers believe that the best approach for people with type 2 diabetes is to eat more, smaller meals at regular intervals throughout the day. Typically experts recommend eating six times a day. So in that case, there are as many snacks as actual meal breaks. But, again, eating right is the magic and filling the intake with the right foods is most important. Walk past the donuts, and candy dish. Don’t waste the carbs.

wy69


7 posted on 10/03/2022 4:19:13 PM PDT by whitney69
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I am in my 70s, way beyond anyone saying “he died so young” that I have stopped caring about what others think I should or should not do for my health.

My affairs are in order and I have no debts and no real health issues. I prefer enjoying the time I have left, and dieting is not very enjoyable.

But bless all those that make the effort, if it works for you good.


8 posted on 10/03/2022 4:51:00 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: nickcarraway

Depends on your snack....A banana...hard boiled egg...bowl of cereal...


9 posted on 10/03/2022 4:55:38 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: whitney69

‘Snacking’ doesn’t often refer to things like celery sticks, or even fruit.

When you’re on a low-carb diet, there are lots of things, like cheese, meat, veggies - and celery sticks, even with a little peanut butter! - that you can snack on.

But ‘snacking’ usually means something like potato chips or cookies :-)


10 posted on 10/03/2022 4:59:04 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Look at things have changed over time. In the 70s people ate three meals a day. Now people are told to eat constantly.


11 posted on 10/03/2022 5:02:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I think the diabetic diets they recommend now are veering away from 6 meals....apparently, its best to go long periods where you don't eat at all...14-16 hrs and to keep your eating down to only a certain number of hrs...

theory is that you aren't raising your blood sugar multiple times a day...

12 posted on 10/03/2022 5:06:04 PM PDT by cherry
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I rarely eat meals. I “graze.” I must be super fat since I have lost nearly 40 pounds. Scientists say.


13 posted on 10/03/2022 5:15:41 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: nickcarraway

I was alive in the ‘70s. Folks snacked :-)

They probably ‘snacked’ in the olden days, too. I used to know a farmer who carried dried beef tongue in his pocket, and would carve off pieces as he worked.


14 posted on 10/03/2022 5:21:00 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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I snack throughout the day on low-carb food and only if I feel that my tank is running low between scheduled meals. I’ve been eating this way for almost 20 years. I think snacking is only problematic in excess and it also depends on what type of snacks. Pringles or ice cream vs. beef jerky or a small salad with protein... big differences.


15 posted on 10/03/2022 6:38:11 PM PDT by grimalkin (Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. -Fulton J. Sheen)
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To: nickcarraway

According to the latest research, the best way to lose weight is to eat less food less often. They call it “Intermittent fasting”.


16 posted on 10/03/2022 6:57:32 PM PDT by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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There are different types of ‘intermittent fasting’; for instance, one is time-centered - you don’t eat anything at all for long periods of time. (I generally don’t eat anything from bedtime until about 1 or 2 in the afternoon.)

Another form is alternate day fasting, where on some days you eat nothing.

All of this is much easier if you’ve been on a very low-carb diet for a few days at least - you just lose your appetite when you are eating that way.

I’m not sure there is valid scientific evidence on the benefits of any of this...


17 posted on 10/03/2022 7:32:45 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: nickcarraway

Snacking is one if the dwindling few enjoyable things about life.


18 posted on 10/03/2022 7:56:14 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: whitney69
An example is a daily diabetic diet. Many healthcare providers believe that the best approach for people with type 2 diabetes is to eat more, smaller meals at regular intervals throughout the day. Typically experts recommend eating six times a day.

More cutting edge doctors seem to be against this approach. Check out Dr. Jason Fung.

19 posted on 10/03/2022 8:48:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: CIB-173RDABN

“I prefer enjoying the time I have left, and dieting is not very enjoyable.”

Quality over quantity is a preference that many don’t care about. They get so hooked on “the cure” that they don’t see what the the illness does. That’s why there are so many people in hospitals dying of nothing.

I do have some of those health issues that are so overwhelming to the common man that I pay doctors to keep me comfortable now rather than running a marathon. I’m also in my 70’s and my illness checklist is on a 8 by 11 rather than punch card. But, I’ve resigned myself that I made the choice many years ago to go until I can’t. Taking a major trip next year and it will be my last one so I’m going to live it up. Wfe and my 50th. Taking another cruise.

wy69


20 posted on 10/04/2022 8:52:37 AM PDT by whitney69 (quantity)
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