Having a snack call the products eaten on the run between the main meals. Usually sandwiches, chips, cookies, croutons and various sweeties belong to this category.
Harm and advantage of having a snack
To quash the feeling of hunger arising during the working day products with the high caloric content which don't provide long saturation often are used. After chocolate or a pack of chips of a thought of food return very quickly. It turns out, more than 300 kilocalories were eaten absolutely in vain.
Having a snack products with the high content of fast carbohydrates is also harmful. Rich baking and sweeties are quickly acquired by an organism, sharply increase sugar level in blood, but can't satisfy hunger for a long time. Nourishing having a snack has to be balanced, it has to contain different nutritive matters: carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Healthy food with low caloric content gives more long effect of saturation: fruit, vegetables, grain small loafs, low-fat cottage cheese and cheese.
It is impossible to get rid of having a snack completely. They help to satisfy small hunger that will prevent further overeating. Thanks to having a snack the alimentary system receives full-fledged and uniform loading during the day, the feeling of fatigue decreases, the mood improves and the physical and intellectual working capacity increases. Sugar in blood is constantly supported at the normal level.
Useful having a snack
It is necessary to remember that having a snack isn't full meal therefore its energy value shouldn't exceed 200 kilocalories. Ideal fast food for slightly hungry person it is possible to call nuts. 30 grams of nuts contain about 170 kilocalories, 15 g of fats, 7 g of carbohydrates and 6 g of proteins and also vitamins and other useful minerals. Well satisfy hunger and don't cause growth of level of sugar in blood protein products: the boiled or baked meat, fish, eggs, cottage cheese and cheese. Fat-free yogurt can become useful having a snack in a workplace. To make it more nutritive, add to a glass a few linen sunflower seeds, dried fruits or ground nutlets. Fresh fruit and berries – an excellent source of carbohydrates and cellulose. To increase the caloric content of these products, to add proteins and fats, it is recommended to use them with cottage cheese, kefir or yogurt. It is better to eat vegetables as having a snack as a part of the salads filled with yogurt or vegetable oil. Vegetable chips will help to cope with light hunger: carrots, pepper, turnip, an asparagus, squash – small cut and slightly dried.