The High Cost of Snacking

Snacks are usually made up of poor quality foods and those who eat snacks are more likely to use friend food (the poorest way to make them), as well as sweets and "empty calories." Snacks are also expensive! Just consider the high cost of potato chips, while mashed or baked potatoes cost so little.

 
Both are underweight and overweight people are more common among those who eat between meals, and the number of cavities a dentist finds can be predicted with fair accuracy by the number of snacks taken each day.
 
Small quantities of food eaten between meals can raise the number of calories consumed by several hundred, and this is significant, since eating just 100 extra daily calories can add 10 pounds per year to one's weight! The best course for anyone and especially those who are fighting "the battle of the bulge" is to leave off all foods between meals. The same applies to those who are underweight, since food is more efficiently digested and assimilated with a regular meal schedule.
 
Allergies are more common among those who snack between meals, as well. Not only is the variety of possible allergens greatly multiplied, but the likelihood of producing toxic chemicals by inefficient digestion is also increased.
 
STAYING IN SYNC
Begin with the salivary glands; the entire digestive tract prepares digestive juices of good strength in adequate quantities – a task that requires a tremendous expenditure of chemical and physical energy from the body. If a regular mealtime pattern has been developed, this preparation will be made precisely on time. However, if the meal is delayed, or is more than an hour early, this preparation will be out of synchrony with the meals, causing that great expenditure of energy to be lost. This weakens the body, making it more susceptible to infections and promoting incomplete digestion of food.
 
Even nibbling on a few peanuts between meals causes stagnation of food in the stomach. X-ray studies done years ago showed that a little eating between meals delays stomach emptying by up to 14 hours or more. This stalling of food in the stomach promotes gastritis, since the stomach puts out large quantities of acid and pepsin as long as food is present. These are powerful digestants, and their overproduction is likely to cause the stomach to become weakened, often resulting in peptic ulcers.
 
GIVE IT A REST
To avoid stomach disease, the stomach needs to finish its work by 2 to 4 hours after a meal, resting for an hour or two before getting recharged for the next meal. Therefore, five or more hours should pass between the end of one meal and the beginning of the next – with nothing eaten between. Remember that heavy foods empty very slowly from the stomach – oil being the slowest at just one teaspoonful per hour.
 
Since the stomach is more vigorous in the morning, the largest meal of the day should be breakfast, followed by the second largest, dinner, taken in the early or mid-afternoon. One should never go to bed with undigested food in the stomach, so if a third male is taken at all, it should be light and early – the equivalent of a piece of bread and a small dish of fruit.

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