Story snacks The New Normal - grazing all day long

jackn · Post by **jackn** » Sun Apr 24, 2016 5:58 pm

A survey using cell phone photo reporting found that people have no regular meals: http://www.livescience.com/52292-square ... terns.html
Rather, they snack for, on the average, fifteen hours daily:

A new study... finds that the average person is a grazer. People don't eat three or four times during the day; they snack all the time.

No snacking...
Keep it up.

Merry · Post by **Merry** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 4:07 am

Good article. Eating in a shorter window and not right before bed confirm things I've read elsewhere too.

jackn · Post by **jackn** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 5:36 am

Hey Merry.

Thanx.

Keep it up.
Let's all keep it up in this mad mad mad environment.

cedar · Post by **cedar** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 10:19 am

Great article, thanks.
Just curious is this true in your France too? Or is it still mainly the traditional 3 meals per day I've always read about..

jackn · Post by **jackn** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 11:45 am

Thanx, Cedar.

I'd say US lifestyle ends up here with a few years delay, in general.

So, I observe a transition from the tradition you refer to to snacking.
Lots of snacking among my high school students.
The vending machine rooms are crowded.

People eat on the street, which used to be a no-no.

More restaurants serve all day long, though with most of them it's still the noontime and dinner service only. But then, there are plenty of fast food and snack places, as anywhere else, where consumption is non-stop.

The language is full of US-English words, in particular food-words: snack, fast-food, McDo...

So, no, not US-like yet, and no, nothing like traditional France, either.

cedar · Post by **cedar** » Tue Apr 26, 2016 2:00 am

It's a shame isn't it..my husbands family is in Switzerland, and while it's still quite strong, the 3 meals a day routine, slowly things are changing such as not all shops close for the lunch hour and children don't all come home for lunch as mothers are working more.
Thankfully NoS exists!!

oolala53 · Post by **oolala53** » Tue Apr 26, 2016 2:37 am

I laugh when proponents of intermittent fasting talk about not needing three meals a day, as if that's ALL people eat! As I've said, if we could get 80% of people eating ONLY that often, then we could have an interesting baseline to see if and who needs refinement.

But I think things will get worse before they get better. How many times did most of us had to blow it before we surrendered?

leafy_greens · Post by **leafy_greens** » Tue Apr 26, 2016 2:33 pm

"cream-cheese-Cheeto sandwich [or] rice crispy with spicy trail mix"