Hello!

Today in the the "What's News" section of the wall street journal they state that "An autopsy study of younger adults who died from unnatural causes found many had clogged arteries, suggesting that heart disease may be on the rise." Scary, huh?

But today is Tuesday! What on earth does this have to do with Less Stress in the Office Day?! I will tell you. Stress and food go together a lot of the time (of course there are the people who react to stress by not eating at all, but we'll save that for another day. That's not healthy either, though, just fyi). When you're stressed out not only is it hard to make time to make healthy food, but it is also easy to justify unhealthy food. For example, "I am having a crappy day so I should probably get myself a cheeseburger and fried for lunch. I deserve it." You do deserve it! Don't get me wrong, I love the french fry. But if that little justification becomes an every day thing you end up with the clogged arteries mentioned above.

So when your office is convincing you that you have been working really hard and ought to reward yourself with Wendy's just remember your arteries. They need a break from working hard from time to time too. So reward yourself with something a smidge healthier. Like a sandwich that doesn't have anything fried on it!

Note: I found that picture of fries on a website that suggests it as a desktop background. I don't know. To me that just doesn't seem right.