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Is Your Lunchbox Making You Sick?

Do you keep falling sick due to food poisoning and diarrhoea? But then, you usually do not eat out a lot. In fact, you mostly take working lunches which basically means that you eat your food at your work station. Desktop eating can be very bad for health. You need to realise that lunchbox is making you sick and that is why you have to take precautions.

10 EASY RECIPES FOR YOUR LUNCHBOX

The concept of working lunches is really trending these days. People just take their lunch while they are sitting at their workplace. This allows them to carry on working right through lunch. This works out fine for your organisation because you will be more productive. But your lunchbox is making you sick invariably. That is why; you need to take stock of the situation and find out if you are falling sick due to your lunch time habits.

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Heating Food
Heating food is an important part of ensuring that you get rid of bacteria from the food. But when you are having working lunches, you usually forget to heat up your food. Heating also gives rise to the aroma of food that is distracting to other employees.

Heating Food In The Right Way
It is not enough to heat food; you have to heat food in the right way. These days we tend to carry plastic lunch boxes that can be directly heated in the microwave. But these plastics degenerate and cause health disorders. Ideally, you should carry your lunch in a steel lunchbox and heat it in a plate that is available at the cafeteria.

Stale Air
You sit in the stale air conditioned atmosphere of the office all day. Lunch time is your only chance to get out and get some air. And the whole idea of working lunches will deny you the chance to have that extra dose of fresh air while eating.

What Is Inside Your Lunchbox?
You also need to choose your lunchbox contents carefully. You should never carry foods that can cause toxicity easily. For example, if you carry curd, then you need to place your lunchbox in the refrigerator. Similarly, juices and other foods that get spoiled easily should be stored in the refrigerator available in the office. Most of the time, you forget to do this under the pressure of work.

So after reading these points, do you really think your lunchbox is making you sick? And if it is, then you should change your lunch time habits readily.

Story first published: Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 12:22 [IST]
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