Healthy Diet

Take a look around the lunch room and you’ll notice most of your coworkers are starting their day with a pot of coffee and about 3 cigarettes  (obviously not smoking in the lunchroom…right?). You’ll notice lunch will be a bag of chips, a chocolate bar and a soda. Maybe this may even be your go-to diet. But eating like this doesn’t hurt just your waistline. An unhealthy diet has major effects on your brain. Junk food directly affects you hippocampus (your hippo-what?). This is a part of the brain that is in charge of memory, mental health and learning. All of which are key things for working safe… and overall day to day functioning. Eating a healthy well-balanced diet not only reduces your risk of heart disease and obesity, it can keep you sharp at work. I’m not saying eat broccoli all day, but lower your sugar intake and skip the fast food, especially at work, it makes you sluggish. And hey, broccoli really isn’t that bad, is it?