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Is cake in the office harmful?

2 mins read Workplace issues/your health
According to Professor Susan Jebb, chairwoman of the Food Standards Agency, bringing cake into the office could be as harmful as passive smoking.

The comments were released as part of an interview with The Times. Susan said, “We all like to think we’re rational, intelligent, educated people who make informed choices the whole time and we undervalue the impact of the environment.

“If nobody brought in cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes in the day, but because people do bring cakes in, I eat them. Now, OK, I have made a choice, but people were making a choice to go into a smoky pub.”

Susan acknowledged that the two issues are not identical. But she argued that in the harm passive smoking inflicts on others is “exactly the same” as food.

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