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Poll: Should Employers Mandate That Workers Eat Healthy?

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 03:15 AM PDT

The New York Health Department recently sent a memo to its 3000 employees stating that employees are more or less required to eat healthier while on the job.

The memo was entitled "Life in the Cubicle Village" and covered several workplace guidelines in addition to the dietary ones, including personal hygiene, use of perfumes, and displaying offensive material in cubicles, but does this infringe on their workers' rights?

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Understanding "True" Hunger

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 03:08 AM PDT

Young babies have a natural, inbuilt ability to know when they are hungry and when they've had enough to eat.

However with time, that begins to change, and we develop habits which cause us to eat when we don't need food, often allowing environmental factors to dictate when it's time for a meal or snack.

The Yo-Yo dieting that many people put themselves through, can also mess up their ability to read the body's hunger signals, and eventually it can make it more difficult to know when and how much to eat.

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