Small dish of chocolate peanut butter ice cream. Bagel with American cheese, French fries, can of Diet Coke. People snack when they're rushed, bored, anxious. They nibble when they're watching TV and on the computer, while they're sitting at their desk, when they arrive home from school and have nothing to do. Snacking has become such a habit that some kids nibble around the clock.
Kids go to a soccer game for an hour, and someone brings a snack.
They go to preschool for two hours, and 15 minutes of that is having a snack. We've ingrained the snacking habit into our children from a very, very young age. They are eating because it's there. Unfortunately, the foods kids are eating today aren't delivering as much nutrition as they should, but they are packing a big punch when it comes to calories. Another female patient told him she buys tasty treats on the walk home from school, and several teens told him they grab fast-food meals as snacks.