A new study of 800 nurses1 found that those who snacked had higher stress, more cognitive failures at work, and more injuries outside of work.
I have long warned against snacking because it throws hormone switches involving insulin, leptin, and glucagon into a poor state of timing which will lower blood sugar in the brain improperly. Since your brain needs a stable supply of blood sugar for optimal function, a disruption in this process is certain to impact cognitive ability which is demonstrated by this study.
You are supposed to get a snack between meals – but it is supposed to come from your liver! The moral of the story is to eat in harmony with leptin or suffer the consequences.
Snacking Associated With Increased Rates of Injury, Stress & Cognitive Malfunction
