Craving potato chips or chocolate?
Your job may be to blame for why you’re not losing weight… seriously. If you’re
doing work that you aren’t passionate about and are feeling uninspired and
bored at work, there may be a science-backed reason you reach into the candy jar or hit the vending
machine for cookies or potato chips mid-afternoon.
One study found that people
are more likely to eat fatty, sugary foods if they are bored. One of the
study’s authors suggests that we experience low levels of dopamine, a brain
chemical, when we’re bored, and this could drive us to compensate by eating fat
and sugar.
