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Is there any other worker who hasn't suffered from having lunch at the workplace?

There are already enough sundries on the station, and you have to put greasy lunch boxes in the middle of a pile of papers! If you need to deal with work immediately during a meal, you may have to click on the keyboard and make a phone call while chewing food, and lunch is also gobbled up. after all, the attention is not on the food at all.

Do you like eating at your desk? Lunch has become a short break for workers sitting in front of the computer, as if the work is not over, just need a little more energy, lunch has even become dispensable.

But is it really good to eat like this?

Researchers have long suggested that eating is an important thing, diet will affect our cognitive and emotional state, and where to eat? Who are you eating with? It's also secretly changing our mood.

The survey found that food at home will feel better! The researchers asked participants to drink exactly the same yogurt and drinks at home and at a wine tasting, and found that people felt better at home. The researchers speculate that it is likely that people who stay at home will be happier.

At home, people will be happier. | Pixabay and "the food outside is not delicious". Sometimes it may not be the cook's poor cooking skills, or it may be that we eat in the wrong place, that is to say, our mood of eating is affected by the "situation".

In one experiment, the same dish (with the same taste) was handed over to different suppliers, such as canteens, military training camps, cafeterias, nursing homes and four-star hotel restaurants.

The same dish will taste better in the restaurant. | Pixabay sometimes, when you eat, you may not only pay attention to the food itself, but also the environment in which you eat and the people you eat with. So, it's really important to have a good meal! One study found that TA's verdict would have been more moderate if the judge had taken a break and had a meal during the day's proceedings. So justice may be determined by a good meal. (nonsense

In 2016, a report called "meals eaten by workers alone on their desks" as "failed lunches". It is mentioned in the article that about 62% of the migrant workers finish their lunch at their desks, while 25% of the respondents think that it is good for a person to eat and work at the same time.

Workplace meals do save time and effort, but there are also a lot of troubles: there are only a few takeouts that can be ordered, and the tables are becoming more and more cluttered; and the refrigerators shared in the company tend to be unsanitary.

Just having a meal, don't be hard on the workers any more. Giphy in addition to these reasons, the researchers also found that a person who eats meals will eat less. This phenomenon is called the "social promotion" effect, and when you eat with others, you will eat more because of mutual promotion. But eating less is not a good thing. If we eat less for dinner, we will eat more snacks.

According to the data, workers often eat snacks at 2pm, 00pm and 4pm. People who don't have enough to eat at lunch will have an appetite for hoarded snacks.

Eat some potato chips and spicy gluten buns to survive the long working day. | in a study conducted by Pixabay, 33 participants were asked to have lunch at a restaurant or desk, and then questionnaires, cognitive tests and EEG were used to assess their differences in mood and cognitive level after eating.

It turns out that people who eat in restaurants become calmer and less alert, that is to say, eating in restaurants is more relaxing.

The results of other cognitive tests showed that people who ate in restaurants had a lower level of cognitive control (cognitive control refers to the ability to control their behavior and achieve goals). This also makes sense. Eating in a restaurant often allows us to relax, "change our mood" and go back to work. On the other hand, people who eat "workstation meals" are working all the time, and they may feel tired more easily in the afternoon.

Many workstations forget what they are eating after eating. For people in different positions, a reduction in the level of cognitive control has both advantages and disadvantages. For data processing or laboratory staff, higher cognitive control is more helpful. For those who need creative thinking and maintain relationships, a lower level of cognitive control may be a good thing.

Therefore, whether the working meal is good or bad, the effect of work may vary from person to person. But it really doesn't make us relax during our lunch break, and this lonely way of eating makes it less likely to feel the atmosphere of collaboration, innovation and friendliness in the office.

I'm already very tired from working. Let's go and relax at noon. | Giphy so, if you want to get out of your busy work and take a breath, you might as well go to a restaurant or eat in the canteen with your colleagues, which may make the meal tastier and get some fresh air.

But sometimes, it's not up to the workers to decide where to eat, right, leader?

Reference:

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[2] Danziger, Shai, Jonathan Levav, and Liora Avnaim-Pesso. "Extraneous factors in judicial decisions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108.17 (2011): 6889-6892.

[3] Sommer, Werner, et al. "How about lunch? Consequences of the meal context on cognition and emotion." PLoS One 8.7 (2013): e70314.

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/failure-to-lunch.html

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