YouTube video transcript (Ben Greenfield) discussing how frequent snacking — even on ‘healthy’ foods or liquid calories — can undermine body composition goals. The speaker warns that access to healthy snacks leads to repeated grazing and estimates individuals may consume roughly 300–600 extra calories between meals, potentially exceeding 1,000 excess calories per day.
The first thing I noted was people who have access to healthy snacks eat them a lot. It's the so called Trader Joe's phenomenon right? I shop at Trader Joe's, I got a pantry full of healthy snack foods and I'm just hitting those over and over again throughout the day. Bad move if your goal is body composition. Now I was shocked at the amount of snacking that occurred between meals in guys who were sharing that one of their primary goals was to lose this extra bit of fat around their waistline. But I would estimate that just about every person there was probably consuming somewhere between 300 and 600 extra calories from liquid calories or so called healthy food in between each meal. And the reason I'm telling you that is this. I think that people especially want to optimize body composition. Don't either look at labels or think enough about calories consumed in between meals which can add up to over a thousand total calories throughout the day of excess calories SA.
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