Contents:
- Medical Video: Healthy Snacks - Healthy Office Snack Options
- 1. The office desk is dirty
- 2. Overeating
- 3. Most sit (low physical activity)
- 4. The brain needs refreshment
- 5. Risk of muscle problems
Medical Video: Healthy Snacks - Healthy Office Snack Options
Eating at the office desk is an option for some people. Maybe the reason is to be practical or to be able to eat while continuing work or watching videos. However, do you know that eating at an office desk has many negative effects on health? Here's the explanation.
1. The office desk is dirty
Eating still on the office desk not only makes us lazy to move, but also increases the risk of more bacterial contamination. Office desks are designed not to eat, so eating in a place that is not functioned to eat will risk higher contamination of microorganisms or bacteria.
A restaurant table or place to eat that is often cleaned is sure to still contain a lot of bacteria. What if on an office desk, laptop, handphone, telephone, mouse, computers, cables, etc. are they cleaned? Usually very rare or even no.
Mobile phones are objects that contain the most bacteria, then followed by the keyboard laptop or computer.
2. Overeating
When eating at a work desk, it is usually not just one job that we do. Not only focus on eating but also deal with matters on laptops, cellphones, or writing and so forth. This condition makes you not pay attention to the amount of food that you have eaten so you can eat most until satiety.
If you always do this every day during work, too much excess food will affect the increase in body weight and changes in nutritional status. WHO states that the main factor in obesity in addition to low physical activity is high calorie intake, especially from fatty foods.
3. Most sit (low physical activity)
In the study of Wanner and his colleagues in 2016, it was said that the longer the sitting time, associated with an increase in percent body fat measured using Bioelectric Impedance Analysis.
According to WHO, low physical activity is a cause of heart disease, diabetes, triggers for risk of colon cancer, high blood pressure (hypertension), osteoporosis, depression, and anxiety. In addition, lack of motion is one of the main factors besides excessive intake which affects the occurrence of overweight conditions and even obesity.
The bad effects of the habit of sitting too long in the office really need to be reduced. Exit when eating hours or go to the kitchen and office dining room can be an alternative to meet the needs of motion while in the office. RI Ministry of Health in the program Healthy Life Society Movement appeal to all office workers who have low physical activity to increase walking activities.
4. The brain needs refreshment
After working for half a day, the brain must be refreshed in order to think more sharply. When you leave a moment of work and do other physical activities that are not work related, even new thoughts will emerge. So, give time and space to think freely at lunch time. Don't get too hung up on your office desk.
5. Risk of muscle problems
Too much sitting besides increasing the risk of obesity also causes problems with aches, especially in the neck, back, shoulders and hands. Therefore, give a muscle opportunity to change its position by doing other activities during lunch breaks.
