“I was on vacation in Brittany, I brought you caramels ! “,” We make a breakfast pro, tomorrow morning? “,” Who wants chocolate cake? It’s me who did it ! We know: in business, snacking is doing well. Worse: it is even advisable, to better integrate into the team, to regularly bring back small treats to his colleagues!
Except, according to the UK School of Dental Surgery, these cultural and professional habits (seemingly harmless) are, in fact, bad for our health. The ‘cake culture’, as they call it, is said to promote obesity and oral problems.
To limit the damage, dentists give us some good advice: first, simply remove cookies from the open space, to replace them with less caloric and less sweet alternatives. The Google firm is cited as an example by specialists: at the American web giant, cakes are difficult to access, packaged in opaque paper and the portions are smaller. Not very nice, but definitely better for your health …
A “sugar calendar” in the office
Second initiative to adopt: develop a “sugar calendar” in the office, that is to say, concentrate snacking (birthdays, new arrivals, events to celebrate, etc.) over one or two days in the month. Then, of course, professionals repeat the measures inspired by common sense: do not snack between meals, favor natural sugars (fruits, honey, agave syrup), prefer oilseeds to sweets and pastries…
“To fight obesity and oral disorders, we must adopt new habits in the workplace: promote snacks healthy and limit the consumption of sugary products by employees. Isn’t that a good resolution for the year 2017? Asks Prof. Nigel Hunt of the Faculty of Dental Surgery.
If the idea seems quite sensible to us, what about conviviality and snacks with colleagues?
