“I was on vacation in Brittany, I brought you some caramels ! », « We make a breakfast pro, tomorrow morning? », « Who wants chocolate cake? It’s me who did it ! We know it: in business, snacking is doing well. Worse: it is even advisable, to better integrate into the team, to regularly bring small treats to your colleagues!
Except that, according to the faculty of dental surgery of the United Kingdom, these cultural and professional habits (apparently harmless) are, in fact, bad for our health. The “cake culture”, as they call it, would promote obesity and oral problems.
To limit the damage, the dentists give us some good advice: first, purely and simply remove the cookies from the open space, to replace them with less caloric and less sweet alternatives. The firm Google is cited as an example by specialists: at the American web giant, the cakes are difficult to access, wrapped in opaque paper and the portions are smaller. Not very nice, but definitely healthier…
A “sugar calendar” in the office
Second initiative to adopt: develop a “sugar calendar” in the office, that is to say, concentrate snacking (birthdays, newcomers, events to celebrate, etc.) on one or two days in the month. Then, of course, the 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 against obesity and oral disorders, we must adopt new habits in the workplace: promote snacks healthy and limiting the consumption of sugary products by employees. Isn’t this a good resolution for the year 2017? asks Prof. Nigel Hunt, from the Faculty of Dental Surgery.
If the idea seems quite sensible to us, what about conviviality and snacks between colleagues?
