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Stress eating at work? It's the office snack trap

Stress eating at work? It's the office snack trap

Work stress makes your body pump out cortisol, and that hormone makes you hungry for snacks. Your 4pm desk raid of biscuits, namkeen, and sweet chai runs about 315 kcal - two small swaps bring it under 250.

12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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Stress snacking just means you have weak willpower.

mostly false

Mostly false. When work stress lasts a while, your body makes a hormone called cortisol. Cortisol raises your appetite and pushes you toward sugary, fatty snacks. A real study found people who made more cortisol under stress snacked more in daily life. So the 4pm biscuit urge is biology, not weakness.

Sources: Harvard Health - Why stress causes people to overeat
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