Snacks are foods and beverages that are not eaten at regular meals. Snacking is a common behavior among children and cannot be avoided. Snacking can be used as a supplemental channel for energy and nutrients other than regular meals, and occupies a certain position in a day’s energy and nutrient intake. Children should not be banned from snacking simply and violently, but should be guided correctly so that they can enjoy snacking and get nutritional supplements at the same time. First, snacking should be appropriate time. Snacks should be eaten between meals, such as at 10 a.m. or after a nap. Not too close to the next meal time, so as not to affect the next meal of the main appetite and digestion and absorption function. Many conditional primary and secondary schools, the use of recess meals at 10 a.m., not only make students learn well, physical fitness has also improved. Secondly, the amount of snacks should be appropriate. Snacks can not replace the main meal. If snacks eat too much, disrupting the meal eating habits, affecting the appetite of the next meal, so that the next meal eat less, or simply do not eat, easy to cause malnutrition. If snacks eat a lot, the next meal as usual, it is easy to cause excess energy and nutrition, causing overweight or obesity. The second snack variety is very important, in addition to fruit, nuts, to choose food with high nutritional value, such as milk, soy milk, dairy products, soy products, eggs, beef jerky, dried fish fillets, etc.. Should not always eat processed foods with lower nutritional value, tasty but provide calories, such as cookies, instant noodles, puffed food, candy, preserves, chocolate, frozen, desserts, jelly, fruit juice, carbonated drinks, etc. As for some foods that will saturated fat or trans fatty acids as pastry, cakes, pickled foods with high sodium, smoked foods with spoiled proteins, and snacks such as popcorn with high lead content should not be eaten. We should have a concept that one is not a blanket objection to snacking. Second, snacking should be appropriate, the right amount. Third, snacking should also pay attention to nutrition, not just to satisfy the craving. In addition, snacking must pay attention to health, to prevent disease from the mouth. As snacking is often “hand pinched” most likely due to unclean hands or unclean food and cause hepatitis, diarrhea and other diseases. How to stop children from eating too much snacks? 1, cultivate children’s good eating habits (1) regular and quantitative eat good meals: give children the right amount of meals, adhere to each meal to eat some. Can’t just ask the child to eat more, and not according to how much the child loves to eat, a full a hungry, and then filled with snacks, which will affect the next meal appetite, while it will develop the child capricious, wasteful bad habits. (2) Meals should be varied, balanced and moderate. Meat and vegetables, coarse and fine combination, children’s meals as far as possible color and flavor, meals do not always a face. The main food should be abundant, in addition to rice, there are bread, dumplings, wontons, etc.. Rice can be varied, adding millet, beans, diced meat, etc. to rice for good color and nutrition. Children usually like to eat sweet and sour, braised and ketchup dishes. The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more out of your child. (3) eat to chew slowly. Some parents are impatient and force-feed their children, which is not right. (4) instruct your child not to be partial and picky eaters. (5) Do not let children drink a lot of carbonated drinks, especially cola-type drinks. Because of the high phosphorus content, excessive consumption leads to imbalance of calcium and phosphorus ratio in the body. Cause developmental delays, but should allow children to drink more plain water. (6) to create a warm environment for children to eat, no matter what the case can not be reprimanded at the dinner table, scolding children, the results cause unnecessary tension, so that children form bad conditioned reflexes, and even cause a very strong rebellious psychology, more disregard for dinner. (7) children children are praised, parents may wish to prepare a few more “high hat”. If your child performs well in eating, mom and dad can pass the reward method. Of course, this reward should not be the award food, but the child like to accept such as buying books, storytelling, buying toys or weekend family trips to the park, but these praise must be fulfilled. 2, the following snacks in several “number one killer” (1) potato chips: its low nutritional value, there is a lot of fat and energy, eat more appetite destruction can easily lead to obesity. (2) jelly: the basic composition of the market jelly is a carbohydrate that can not be absorbed by the body – card grain gum. Basically does not contain fruit juice, its sweetness from saccharin, and fragrance from artificial flavors. (3) fast bruschetta: high fat content, relatively low nutritional value, eat more is not conducive to dietary balance (4) cookies: from high energy, high-fat food, vitamin-mineral content is low. Eat more is not conducive to dietary balance, but also lead to obesity. (5) Bubble gum, chewing gum: the nutritional value is almost zero. Some products contain a lot of preservatives, artificial sweeteners, especially low-quality substandard products, more damage to children’s health. (6) puffed food, nutrition is still possible, but contains a lot of coloring, flavoring, preservatives, artificial light sweeteners, excipients and other food additives, eat more is not conducive to children’s health.