{"id":3261,"date":"2010-03-05T07:25:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T05:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2015-02-15T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T14:26:02","slug":"generation-snack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/generation-snack\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Generation Snack&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=http%3A%2F%2Fwell.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F03%2F02%2Fu-s-children-generation-snack%2F%3F_r%3D5&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This NYT summary of a\u00a0recent study<\/a> doesn&#8217;t paint a very pretty picture of kids&#8217; snacking habits:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A sweeping study of 31,337 children and adolescents released on Tuesday tracked snacking and meal trends from 1977 through 2006 using data from four national surveys. On average, children reach for cookies, chips and other treats about three times a day, consuming nearly 600 daily calories from snacks. That\u2019s an increase of 168 snack calories compared with what children ate in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Overall, snacking now accounts for about 27 percent of an average child\u2019s total daily calories.<\/p>\n<p>Desserts like cookies and cakes remain the main source of snacking. Salty snacks like chips and pretzels have posted the biggest gains and are the second largest snack category. Candy and fruit drinks are also popular. One notable trend is that in the past few decades, fruit drinks have replaced whole fruit as a snack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact that kids are getting fatter isn&#8217;t news, of course.\u00a0 Nonetheless, it&#8217;s interesting to see some numbers and comparisons over time. While the increase in daily calorie intake (+113)\u00a0doesn&#8217;t seem all that large, it&#8217;s more serious when you combine it with less physical activity. More cals coming in + fewer being burned = fatter kids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/content\/29\/3\/398.abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Study abstract here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This NYT summary of a\u00a0recent study doesn&#8217;t paint a very pretty picture of kids&#8217; snacking habits: A sweeping study of 31,337 children and adolescents released on Tuesday tracked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,28],"tags":[1848,1207,1498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9064,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions\/9064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}