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What are the advantages and disadvantages of eating snacks?
There are many kinds of snacks, and many people like them. Eating snacks has certain benefits, such as relieving hunger and supplementing corresponding nutrition, but it also has certain disadvantages, such as malnutrition, obesity, dental caries and so on. It is suggested to choose healthy snacks as far as possible, and pay attention to your food intake, and don't eat too many snacks often.

First, the benefits:

1. Relieve hunger: When you are hungry, eating some snacks such as chocolate and bread can alleviate hunger;

2, supplement the corresponding nutrients: snacks also contain nutrients, such as biscuits, containing certain minerals, vitamins and energy. Therefore, if you can ensure proper consumption, you can also supplement the corresponding nutrients.

Second, the shortcomings:

1, malnutrition: eating snacks for a long time may affect appetite, especially after children eat snacks, the amount of food eaten at dinner may decrease, which may cause malnutrition and other phenomena;

2, obesity: most snacks are high in calories, so eating a lot of snacks often leads to obesity;

3, dental caries: sweets such as sweets and cakes in snacks have a high sugar content, and some microorganisms in the mouth use it, which is easy to form dental plaque and adhere to the surface of teeth, which is difficult to remove. In the long run, it is easy to damage teeth and often cause dental caries.