Regular readers of this column might wonder if I am ever so slightly obsessed with the microbiome, the billions of tiny creatures that live in our guts and you’d be right.
I’m fascinated by these extraordinary microbes, and the ongoing battle between the ‘good’ and the bad’ ones, that influences so much about us, from our weight to our mood.
And now we can add blood pressure to the list because it seems bacteria in your guts may be causing your blood pressure to rise. But help is on its way.
Raised blood pressure or ‘hypertension’ is known as a silent killer because it kills so many people without them ever realising they have it.
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The FINANCIAL People in our social networks influence the food we eat both healthy and unhealthy according to a large study of hospital employees. The foods people buy at a workplace cafeteria may not always be chosen to satisfy an individual craving or taste for a particular food. When co-workers are eating together, individuals are more likely to select foods that are as healthy or unhealthy as the food selections on their fellow employees’ trays, Harvard University notes.
“We found that individuals tend to mirror the food choices of others in their social circles, which may explain one way obesity spreads through social networks,” said Douglas Levy, an investigator at the Mongan Institute Health Policy Research Center at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and first author of new research published in Nature Human Behaviour. Levy and his co-investigators discovered that individuals’ eating patterns can be shaped even by casua
Study finds co-workers influence our food choices ANI | Updated: Apr 23, 2021 15:40 IST
Boston [US], April 23 (ANI): The findings of a new large study on hospital employees suggest that people in our social networks influence the food we eat, both healthy and unhealthy. These findings may help guide efforts to improve population health.
The findings of the research were published in the journal titled Nature Human Behaviour .
The foods people buy at a workplace cafeteria may not always be chosen to satisfy an individual craving or taste for a particular food. When co-workers are eating together, individuals are more likely to select foods that are as healthy or unhealthy as the food selections on their fellow employees trays.
Salad or Cheeseburger? New Research Finds that Our Co-workers Shape our Food Choices People in our social networks influence the food we eat – both healthy and unhealthy – according to a large study of hospital employees
April 23, 2021
Mark Pachucki
The foods people buy at a workplace cafeteria may not always be chosen to satisfy an individual craving or taste for a particular food. A new study by researchers, including sociologist Mark Pachucki at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has found that when co-workers are eating together, individuals are more likely to select foods that are as healthy or unhealthy as the food selections on their fellow employees’ trays.
by Hannah Joy on April 23, 2021 at 11:25 PM
Your colleagues influence the food you eat, be it healthy or unhealthy, especially when you sit together to eat, reveals a new study. We found that individuals tend to mirror the food choices of others in their social circles, which may explain one way obesity spreads through social networks, says Douglas Levy, PhD, an investigator at the Mongan Institute Health Policy Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and first author of new research published in
Nature Human Behaviour.
Levy and his co-investigators discovered that individuals eating patterns can be shaped even by casual acquaintances, evidence that corroborates several multi-decade observational studies showing the influence of people s social ties on weight gain, alcohol consumption and eating behavior.