Today’s children are a generation of snackers – and they’re not eating nuts and berries. U.S. children consume more than 27 percent of their daily calories from snacks, most of it sugary, salty, high-fat junk, according to a new study in the journal Health Affairs. That equates to nearly three snacks a day, an increase of 168 daily calories from 1977 to 2006, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers found.
