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What they need is three square meals a day that are very sensible, they don't need to be huge portions. the europeans do this better than us, where the size of our portions are much, much bigger than what they're serving in europe. then if they do need snacks for maintaining energy or concentration during school we need to be putting healthy snacks in front of them. it's not about the kids making the choice, it's what we as adults are putting in front of kids. jane: a quote cracked me up from the new york tiernlings writer who's a mother said this, not a month goes by without somebody somewher...

They call, quote, contact eating. the study finds more than 27 percent of calories that americans take in -- american kids take in come from snacks and from 1977-2006, they find the extra snacking has added an average of 168-calories per day to kids' diets. doesn't seem like a lot? well t. translates into an extra 17 1/2 pounds a year. let's get to the a team. dr. sanjay kumar, doc, good to see you, it is incredible when you think about it, you have kids and you're constantly being asked to bring the snacks in all the time. >> right. jane it is almost contact eating in some instances. >> it is...

Cross eyed. we need to start putting in front of them, not telling them what the choices are but putting in front of them the fruit and healthier snacks, rather than vending machines in the corners along the school hallways where they have access to it, bringing snacks that are brownies into the schools and michelle obama has it right on this one, we have to start putting as adults, putting better choices in front of our kids. jane: and some have said it's the government's responsibility, others have said no, it's actually a parent's responsibility. >> it's a combination. it's a combination of...

Error in aviation, that's for sure. thank you. jane: how often do you get a snack attack and what about your kids, they're constantly stopping to munch these days, aren't they? heck, even diets now tell us to eat snacks. now there's a warning about the serious consequences of all that eating. ♪ just eat it, eat it, get ♪ just eat it, eat it, get yourself an egg and beat it! ♪

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