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Martin Caraher, Professor of Food and Health Policy, City, University of London

Why eating at work is important – even the odd slice of cake

Eating at work has many benefits. Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock

When England’s Food Standards Agency boss Susan Jebb recently compared eating cake at work to passive smoking, office cubicle walls across the land quivered. She told The Times:

If nobody brought in cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes in the day, but because people do bring cakes in, I eat them. Now, OK, I have made a choice, but people were making a choice to go into a smoky pub.

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