Snacks constitute almost a quarter of a day’s calories in U.S. adults and account for about one-third of daily added sugar, a new study suggests.
Researchers analyzing data from surveys of over 20,000 people found that Americans averaged about 400 to 500 calories in snacks a day—often more than what they consumed at breakfast—that offered little nutritional value.
Though dietitians are very aware of Americans’ propensity to snack, “the magnitude of the impact isn’t realized until you actually look at it,” said senior study author Christopher Taylor, professor of medical dietetics in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at The Ohio State University.
Realizing that was a big deal to me about a decade and a half ago. So you know the Rage Against the Machine song called “Freedom”? If not, please go give it (and everything they ever made) a listen. At the end of each verse, lead singer Zac De La Roca whispers “Anger is a gift.” Well, I warped his words to help me push myself. “Hunger is a gift.” I would growl this to myself if I felt hungry. It would help me keep going.
It is a FUCKING STRUGGLE every day, and whether you meant your words to mock me or side with me doesn’t matter to me in the slightest. If you side with me, thank you, and I hope other who need to see all this see it. If you meant to mock me, it’s truly hilarious. As if any person could amount to the pain my own obsessed mind has caused me in my life. The mockery of others means very little anymore.