Americans Consume a Meals Worth of Calories Through Snacks Alone

(Undated) – If you are thinking about making a New Year’s Resolution to get healthier in 2024, cut out the “snacking.” A new study says Americans eat an extra meal each day just by snacking. Researchers at Ohio State University studied data from over twenty-thousand individuals and found that Americans consume up to five hundred calories daily from snacks alone, which is often more calories than breakfast but with less nutritional value. A senior author of the study said snacks are contributing “a meal’s worth of intake” to our diets without actually being a meal.