Fitness Tips

Chapter 46 Eating Snacks Can Help You Lose Weight

Snacks accompany women's lives almost everywhere.It is a woman's nature to love snacks, but there seem to be many examples around me telling us that eating snacks often is easy to gain weight.Maybe you only see a little bit of it.In fact, eating the right snacks can also help you lose weight.

"There's evidence that you burn more calories by eating smaller, more frequent meals," says David Katz, MD, director of the Yale Center for Prevention Research. "Eating snacks helps you avoid overeating during meals." But there are certain prerequisites for this effect.Why do people who eat snacks often gain weight?That's because these people are choosing snacks that are not good for their health and are high in calories.For example, grab a handful of candy from a colleague's desk, cookies from a coffee shop, or a bag of chips from a vending machine.These snacks make you take in more calories than your body needs each day, so they end up being converted to fat.If you eat 100 more calories per day than your body needs, you will gain 10 pounds in a year.So it's no surprise that those who snack recklessly become obese.

However, choosing healthy snacks wisely and eating them in moderation and at the right time can help you achieve your weight loss goals.Here we recommend some green snacks.The so-called green snacks are snacks with high nutrition, low fat and low salt content.Such as low-fat cheese, coarse fiber biscuits or low-sugar chocolate biscuits, not too sweet bread and sandwiches.If you are not very hungry, dried fruits such as raisins, preserved apricots, and figs are also good choices, as well as various fruit and vegetable slices.These foods taste delicious and crisp, but they are not deep-fried, but baked at high temperature to drain the moisture of the fruit. Not only does the loss of nutrition be small, but it also contains less fat and calories. Eating more will not cause you to gain weight.

It's also important to choose the timing of your snacks wisely.Kathryn ?According to Dr. Kriskey, if you go too long between meals, you're likely to lack energy and become overly hungry.Snack before you get hungry and you'll likely eat less at meals.This will allow you to reduce the intake of meals, which will help you lose weight.Moreover, when your stomach is sending out hunger signals, eating a snack can relieve hunger, so that you will follow the feeling of your stomach and eat less and more meals.Studies have shown that eating three or more meals a day can reduce blood cholesterol.At the same time, it takes some energy to digest food every time you eat. Physiologically speaking, it is the special dynamic effect of food, and the digestion process will consume about 10% of the calories.On the contrary, if you eat less and eat more per meal, the stomach and intestines will get more calories than they need at one time, and the body's metabolism and exercise cannot consume the excess energy.Excess energy is stored in various parts of the body and becomes fat.Studies have shown that: between 3 pm and 4 pm is the best time to eat snacks. In the afternoon, the metabolism of various physiological functions of the body is vigorous, and eating snacks in the afternoon can also improve brain power.

Finally, snacks should be served in moderation.Keen Yayu, a nutritionist at the Einstein College of Medicine in New York, suggests that if you really like snacks, eat 10 percent of your daily calories in snacks.You can choose snacks packaged in small bags, and don't eat too much each time, otherwise you will easily gain weight.

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