Mad snackaholic

[finbarrio]

I snack almost all day. My days are mostly spent at a desk, in front of a computer. So I have lots of time to sit around and stuff my face. It's mostly healthy snacking - trail mix, fruit, carrots. But it's a lot. It doesn't appear to be having any effect on my wasteline or anything, but I wonder if it is unhealthy metabolism-wise or energy-wise.

Any thoughts?

[Zack]

I'd say it's good, keeps your metabolism up to speed. I do the same.

[health freak]

if it's fresh fruits and veggies and doesn't get you fat i think it's ok.

 

I just like to feel hungry when i eat.

[the Asocial Ape]

snacks rule. i eat all day, usually, and my snacks run the gamut from carrot sticks and cucumber slices, to bags of bbq chips, to packs of fake cheese and tofurkey slices.

 

if all you're eating is healthy stuff, you shouldn't even think twice about it.

[offense74]

It might be a problem depending what your after:

Calorie restriction

 

A speeded up metaboilsm in general seems to be a biomarker of aging.

I personally think that one of the benefits of a vegan diet is that vegans tend to eat less calories than omnis. That alone is a favourable, I think.

There have only been one study made on animals when it comes to eating few smaller meals instead of fewer, larger ones and it showed a significant disadvantage when it came to life span for the group with the smaller meals. I don't know how much emphasis to put on that though. On the other hand, periodic fasting seems to have benefits for ones health.

[Guest]

I don't see it as a problem...if anything we'd all be healthier if we never ate meals and only snacked...this way your only giving your body what it can break down at a reasonable speed. You aren't asking too much of it like I do when I eat a whole pizza and a quart of Soy Delicious.

[Patrick]

It might be a problem depending what your after:

Calorie restriction

 

A speeded up metaboilsm in general seems to be a biomarker of aging.

 

Than I must be gearing toward 80, or 85. My metabolism is Speedy Gonzales!!!