Eating While Working Can Make You Fat

Amplify’d from www.wallstreetjournal.com

Many employees these days eat lunch at their desks, because it seems like a harmless way to cram more work into the day.

They might not be so casual about it if they knew the habit was helping them pack on extra pounds. A study in the February issue of the Journal of Clinical Nutrition found people who ate while distracted ate more, and felt less full after lunch, than those who focused on eating.

Researchers served a nine-item lunch to 44 participants who were split into two groups. One group was asked to eat lunch while playing a computer game of solitaire. The second group ate lunch without distractions. Read more at www.wallstreetjournal.com

 

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