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Why you really shouldn't be eating lunch at your desk

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https://www.wired.co.uk/article/eating-l...esk-health

EXCERPT: According to research by BUPA, almost a third of UK workers usually eat lunch at their desk, with 43 per cent saying that they were too busy to pause and take a break from their computers for even a few minutes. A separate survey commissioned by contact lens firm AcuVue suggests we spend about 1,700 hours at our computers every year. So, should we really be stepping away from our desks to take lunch?

The short answer is yes. Generally, our productivity goes down over the course of the day and we’re only able to concentrate for a limited amount of time before needing space to recharge. “Often meal breaks are a time where you are able to refresh your attention," says André Spicer, professor of organisational behaviour [...] “If you don't take a break in which you go away from your actual place where you're working, you're not able to get a boost in attention. Meal breaks basically allow us a productivity refresh."

“Essentially, with attention at work, you have diminishing returns, so that first half an hour you're able to focus very well, but that tends to go down and down and your productivity also goes down," Spicer adds. When you’re sat at your desk, often the temptation to answer a call, reply to an email or continue your work is so great that you’re never fully able to detach from what you’re doing on your computer, and replenish your energy.

In a 2012 study, researcher [...] Jane Ogden ... even says that you don’t get as full when you eat at your desk because of work’s distractions. “If you eat at your desk when you’re distracted through working and you’re not giving yourself a proper lunch break, then the food you eat doesn’t fill you up as much,” she says. “You don’t remember that you have eaten in the same way, and you don’t code food in the same way. You’re more likely to feel hungry in the afternoon and then eat more.”

Many of the negative effects could also relate to sedentarism, or the act of sitting in general. A study conducted back in 2012 on 800,000 Brits found that those who sat for the longest periods of time were twice as likely to get heart disease, diabetes and die of an early death... (MORE - details)
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(Jan 11, 2020 07:13 PM)C C Wrote: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/eating-l...esk-health

EXCERPT: According to research by BUPA, almost a third of UK workers usually eat lunch at their desk, with 43 per cent saying that they were too busy to pause and take a break from their computers for even a few minutes. A separate survey commissioned by contact lens firm AcuVue suggests we spend about 1,700 hours at our computers every year. So, should we really be stepping away from our desks to take lunch?

The short answer is yes. Generally, our productivity goes down over the course of the day and we’re only able to concentrate for a limited amount of time before needing space to recharge. “Often meal breaks are a time where you are able to refresh your attention," says André Spicer, professor of organisational behaviour [...] “If you don't take a break in which you go away from your actual place where you're working, you're not able to get a boost in attention. Meal breaks basically allow us a productivity refresh."

“Essentially, with attention at work, you have diminishing returns, so that first half an hour you're able to focus very well, but that tends to go down and down and your productivity also goes down," Spicer adds. When you’re sat at your desk, often the temptation to answer a call, reply to an email or continue your work is so great that you’re never fully able to detach from what you’re doing on your computer, and replenish your energy.

In a 2012 study, researcher [...] Jane Ogden ... even says that you don’t get as full when you eat at your desk because of work’s distractions. “If you eat at your desk when you’re distracted through working and you’re not giving yourself a proper lunch break, then the food you eat doesn’t fill you up as much,” she says. “You don’t remember that you have eaten in the same way, and you don’t code food in the same way. You’re more likely to feel hungry in the afternoon and then eat more.”

Many of the negative effects could also relate to sedentarism, or the act of sitting in general. A study conducted back in 2012 on 800,000 Brits found that those who sat for the longest periods of time were twice as likely to get heart disease, diabetes and die of an early death... (MORE - details)

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(Jan 11, 2020 07:13 PM)C C Wrote: In a 2012 study, researcher [...] Jane Ogden ... even says that you don’t get as full when you eat at your desk because of work’s distractions. “If you eat at your desk when you’re distracted through working and you’re not giving yourself a proper lunch break, then the food you eat doesn’t fill you up as much,” she says. “You don’t remember that you have eaten in the same way, and you don’t code food in the same way. You’re more likely to feel hungry in the afternoon and then eat more.”

people who work glide time & have the option to work from home, go home early and not come in to work for an entire day etc
are completely different to people who work on fixed rosters to fixed time lines at fixed locations.

you cant just mix in all the different work patterns and then say 1 behavior defines a health outcome for the majority, when the majority do not work in that way.


how does the cashier at a super market or retail store eat at their desk ?

how does a plumber eat at their desk ?

how does a contact center worker (65% of the working population) with a no food to be eaten at your desk rule(loosely enforced) whos food is either in the fridge or they have not yet gone out to buy it...
going to eat at their desk ?

i dont stop and have a meal break because my job requires me to be available for the entire time i am on shift.
so i arrange my food types of what and when i eat to cater directly to what type of work i am doing, how long my shift is and if i am currently in a higher or lower cardio or muscular function at the time.

though i am of sorts one of the lucky ones
i can simply stop eating if i choose
i can also just decide to stop eating a specific thing and/or change my diet completely if i choose to.
not many people can do that

most people are creatures of emotional habit when it comes to eating.

so i notice the very un-helpful language use by ogden saying "feeling"
because "feeling" when it comes to nutrition is a game of drugs

most people do not "feel" their need for specific vitamins & minerals, lower or higher carbs or protein.
they just "feel" for the drugs
sugar
fat
high carbs
MSG
Salt
combinations of food additives that people get addicted to
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