HOW DO YOU combat job stress? Some people take their frustrations out on their colleagues, while others start up a love/hate affair with the office vending machine.
Eating healthily in the office is often a constant struggle. Apart from snacking because of stress, part of our social intercourse on the job is offering and sharing snacks, many of which are too sweet, too salty or too oily.
And it does not help that the regular office worker usually has hardly enough time to eat properly.
Over the years, the accumulated eight to 12-hour workdays, job stress, poor eating habits and physical inactivity tend to catch up. One day you realise it is a struggle to get into your clothes because of those extra kilos - so you decide to diet.
Registered dietician Priscilla Lau of Holistic Nutrition Consultants said that not eating enough at lunchtime often resulted in eating more later on.
She recommended that office workers consumed a proper amount of the much-needed carbohydrates and proteins to last out the day.