Among them, bad lunch is a very important factor that causes poor health of white-collar workers. So how do white-collar workers solve their lunch? Recently, the reporter conducted an investigation and found that there were four major problems in white-collar lunch.
Problem 1: go to restaurants together
Health problems: unreasonable nutrition structure
It’s a little lonely to eat lunch alone during lunch break. Many white-collar workers go to restaurants and restaurants near the office building to treat themselves in groups. The reporter visited the office buildings of Beijing Jianwai SOHO and found that there were many restaurants in the community, including hot pot restaurants, Japanese cuisine, American kitchens, Hong Kong style tea restaurants, and everything you want to eat. “At noon, we like to find some colleagues to make a meal together. We eat differently every day, and our relationship with each other is much closer.”
Mr. Zhong, who works in a public relations company, said in an interview with the reporter, “the girls who love to eat and choose to eat in our company are always sensitive to find out what delicious foods are near the company, where new restaurants are opened, which restaurants have new dishes, and what dishes are nutritious and delicious. They are all clear. Even those who send leaflets in restaurants will first put the list into their hands.”
Health analysis
Some characteristic hot pot restaurants, snack bars, noodle shops and dumpling restaurants have become fixed-point consumption places for white-collar workers for lunch. Sometimes, at noon, every shop is full of people, and the boss’s face is full of bright smiles. Now the most popular dishes are Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine. They are spicy and delicious. How to eat them is the right way. Even if they are so hot that tears run down their eyes, there are still so many people who sacrifice their lives for delicious food. Peppers are naturally hot and spicy. Experts say that peppers have both sides, good and bad. The good side is that peppers contain sufficient vitamin C, rich fiber and low heat. Moreover, peppers also contain carotene that is easily absorbed by the human body, which is good for the eyesight of white-collar workers who often face computer screens. Eating pepper in moderation can appetizer and facilitate digestion and absorption, but you can’t eat too much.
In addition, nutritionists say that white-collar workers in the office belong to extremely light manual workers, with low activity and basic metabolism. They need 25-30 kcal / kg of heat per day, that is, a white-collar with a weight of 60 kg needs about 1500-1800 kcal of heat per day. At present, the main problem of white-collar lunch is that the nutritional structure is unreasonable. When several people go to restaurants together, the dishes they order often only emphasize the taste, and the meat is too oily. The calories are basically enough, but the nutritional structure is very unreasonable.
Experts suggest that you should only eat eight times full for lunch. Because after eating, the blood in the body should be concentrated in the stomach to help digestion and absorption, during which the brain is in a state of ischemia and hypoxia. If you eat too much, you will prolong the time when the brain is in the state of ischemia and hypoxia, thus affecting the work efficiency in the afternoon. You can eat more meat, fish, eggs, soy products and other foods with high protein content, because these foods can keep your mind sharp and play an important role in understanding and memory functions.
Problem 2: fruit snacks as lunch
Health problems: in the long run, gastric function deteriorates
“I always have endless biscuits, prunes and beef jerkies in my drawer. I eat them when I’m hungry and don’t eat them when I’m not hungry. So my figure is the best in the Department.” Miss Dong, who works in an office building in Dongzhimen, proudly told the reporter. In fact, there are not a few white-collar workers like her. In order to keep fit or lose weight, some women replace their lunch with fruit. There are also white-collar workers who always snack on fruits and rely on them for three meals a day. Eating snacks is only a supplement to three meals. If you can’t enjoy lunch too much, such as eating noodles, then take some delicious snacks, such as milk chocolate, cashew nuts, small cakes, fruits and so on. Of course, I don’t advocate doing this every day. I don’t know when men and women began to lose weight, but there was no special nutritionist to provide dieting methods. In the long run, the stomach could not get exercise for a long time, resulting in functional degradation.
Health analysis
At present, young people in their twenties and thirties were born around the 1980s. They have great pressure in life and work, but their health awareness is not good enough. Because many female white-collar workers are unwilling to eat fast food that is easy to make people fat, they casually eat snacks for lunch to pass the time, and have rested from hypoglycemia, anemia and other diseases. Men eat too much fast food in order to be full, resulting in high triglyceride and lack of low-density lipoprotein. Another obvious phenomenon is that some degenerative senile diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes and other diseases. At present, the age of patients has been greatly advanced, and such diseases are more common among white-collar workers around 30 years old.
As for the situation of taking fruits as lunch, experts said that fruits and vegetables have their own nutritional characteristics, and they can not be replaced by each other. Various vegetables are rich in dietary fiber, which can promote intestinal peristalsis, keep gastrointestinal metabolism normal, and prevent some harmful substances (including carcinogens) from being retained and absorbed in the intestine. This is also an effective method to prevent constipation. In addition, eating at the right time is the most important. Generally, it is the normal dining time from 11:00 to 1:00 every day. However, you must eat lunch at the same time every day to adapt to the normal function and regulation of the gastrointestinal tract.
Problem 3: bring your own lunch clean
Health problems: food tends to deteriorate in hot weather
When you take the subway in the morning, you will always see some white-collar workers who are dressed in fashion and are also carrying a delicate lunchbox in their hands. These people are the people who bring their own lunchboxes to work. Put the prepared food in the lunch box the night before, take it to the office the next day, put it in the refrigerator, and start the microwave oven equipped by the company at noon to heat it. You can also eat delicious and intimate “private dishes” without going home.
Bringing your own boxed lunch is hygienic, convenient and cost-effective. White collar workers who usually live with their parents will choose this method, especially girls. Song Ting’s family has a virtuous and capable mother, who can always cook amazing dishes and constantly learn from food programs on TV to change her family’s taste. Song Ting’s boxed lunch is very rich. Every day there is a different meat and vegetable, plus a delicious fruit salad. Another important reason for choosing Bento is that the food and tableware at home are clean, so there is no need to worry about hygiene.
The tight lunch time is another reason why white-collar workers choose to bring their own lunch. “In order not to queue up, you can of course order takeout, but in the area with dense office buildings, there are many white-collar workers who need to order lunch, but there are only a few takeout stores. There are so many glutinous monks, and it takes at least an hour for the boxed lunch to be delivered during peak hours.” MS Ren, who works in a commercial building on Financial Street, said.
In addition, several white-collar workers interviewed also told the reporter that they were surrounded by office buildings, few convenience stores or small restaurants on the street, and it took at least 20 minutes to walk to the nearest hotel; It takes nearly an hour to go back and forth. “The company has strict restrictions on lunch time, and work requires every minute. Who wants to waste time waiting for the elevator and on the way back and forth?”
Health analysis
Food is easy to deteriorate in hot weather. Office buildings with good conditions will be equipped with refrigerators for employees. In case of emergencies such as no refrigerators or power failure in the building, a good lunch will be dumped as garbage. Moreover, some white-collar workers said that they ate these things the night before, and they had to bring leftovers and leftovers to heat them the next day to continue eating, and they lost their appetite at all. Some people even cook the next day’s lunch in the evening. Many people say that they just want to have a good rest after a busy day at home, and they have no strength to cook again.
It seems that bringing lunch is only applicable to white-collar workers with some objective conditions.
Problem 4: order takeout quickly and easily
Health problem: too much nutrition loss
Fast and convenient are the most sought after by the fast food group, and their requirements for lunch are not high. Usually, white-collar workers who choose this method are more pragmatic, eat lunch like a war, and do things meticulously. White collar workers who are also taking lunch breaks but have not finished their work at hand have used their “trump card” – telephone ordering. But noon is often the busiest time for restaurants. It’s lucky that you can deliver steaming lunch to yourself within half an hour. “I called a nearby restaurant and ordered a fried beef river. The other party said it would be delivered in half an hour. But I’ve been waiting for almost an hour now. Why is it so difficult to have lunch?” Miss Mao, who works in the COFCO Plaza office building, complained, “the restaurant is only 5 minutes away from my building. When I served Niuhe, it was 1 hour and 15 minutes past the time of ordering.”
When the reporter conducted a random survey on some white-collar workers in the building, it was found that it was inconvenient to eat out, and some white-collar workers thought it was “crowded” to eat anywhere, so many people simply chose to sit in the office and order takeout. But during the lunch rush hour, because the shops are often very busy, the orderers often have to wait.
Health analysis
It is not a good thing to eat lunch fast, because eating fast is not conducive to the digestion and absorption of food nutrients by the body, but also affects the “processing” burden of the gastrointestinal tract. If eating for speed, it will also slow down the digestion and absorption of food nutrients by the gastrointestinal tract, thus affecting the normal play of brain or physical work ability in the afternoon.
Most of the fast food cooking methods are unscientific. In order to save costs, many fast food will not provide the freshest and seasonal meat and vegetable dishes.
Because it is difficult for white-collar workers to eat delicious lunch, many people place their hopes on food in the evening, which is also a reason for the poor health of white-collar workers. Because irregular diet will cause metabolic disorders and poor stomach appetite, some people find that when they are hungry, they will be full after eating a little, or they will feel uncomfortable after eating; Some people in the office always have abdominal pain when they come to the hospital for examination, but they can’t find out the cause. Without treatment, the abdominal pain will disappear by itself, which is actually a neurosis caused by irregular diet and life. The advantage of boxed lunch lies in its cheapness and variety of dishes. However, it takes a long time from the completion of the preparation to the delivery or bringing of boxed lunch, and some of them have to be reheated. The loss of nutrition is obvious, especially the destruction of vitamin C. Therefore, boxed lunch people should supplement fruits after meals, drink a glass of juice or eat some fresh fruits, and eat them one hour after meals. Don’t eat them between meals, which will affect digestion.
(internship editor: Jian Yanxian)
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