Overweight People Snack Less, But Consume More Calories: Study
Amanda L. Chan
People who are overweighttend to eat fewer times a daythan people who are normal weight, according to a new study in theJournal of the American Dietetic Association.
Reuters reported that that's because even though overweight people eat less often, they are alsoconsuming more calories each time they eatand aren't exercising to burn those off.
In the study, researchers from Marywood University looked at health data of overweight and normal weight adults taken from studies conducted by the National Institutes of Health, Reuters reported. The researchers found that, generally, the overweight people atethree meals and just over a snack a day, while normal-weight people ate three meals and just over two snacks a day, according to Reuters.
CBS News points out that people who had lost weight and kept it offsnacked a few times a dayand ate about 1,800 calories a day, while people who are of normal weight ate about 1,900 calories a day. However, people who were overweight in the study consumed more than 2,000 calories a day.
Participants who lost weight ate multiple snacks and consumed about 1,800 calories a day, and those who maintained a normal weight consumed about 1,900 calories.
The study comes on the heels of another study, also published in theJournal of the American Dietetic Association, that suggests that people withhealthier diets also eat more snacksthroughout the day.
In that study, researchers looked at health data of 11,209 adults who took part in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, to find that people whosnacked four times a day or morehad higher "healthy diet" scores than people who said theynever snacked, MyHealthNewsDaily reported.
However, don't let the word "snack" deceive you -- of course, an unhealthy snack isn't good for your health. A study published last year in the journalHealth Affairsshows that today,snacks are adding an extra 168 caloriesonto kids' diets compared with kids in 1977,USA Todayreported.
That study found that many of the snack calories are coming from things likesalty foods, candy, sugar-sweetened drinks and cereals, according toUSA Today.
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