I was reading an article in a UK magazine about motorcycling Bike! which is actually making me hunger for Europe. Pages and pages of non cruisers, pages of people that don't think it's worth trusting the effectiveness of a t shirt as body armour. Bikes get me to work on occasion, hard to do with a toddler or would be daily, and I have to say there's one thing that I don't do consistently.

I don't get on a bike when not mentally aware,or fully awake with no pains, nagging or even arguments in mind. This is the frame of mind in which I do my best work yet this is the frame of mind that's really easy to lose , especially in an extreme environment such as Phoenix.

It's even worse in the UK though since for the most part people that live in Phoenix know how to dress, hydrate and generally survive the type of temperatures that our summer tosses out. Not so in the UK and hot days when they coincide with people wearing leathers and not drinking can get into trouble really fast.

Got me thinking though about the regimented lunch regimes in many companies and how much harm regulating people's metabolism en masse could be doing to the bottom line.

So off I went to get some research to see if anyone had worked out just how fast we tail off when we allow ourselves to be forced into a routine that's convenient for accounting systems but not for those of us that have to interact with and mostly what I have found is the detrimental effects of "skipping" lunch rather than the regimentation of them. Still looking but in the meantime it's a light snack for thought.




effects of lunch breaks on cognition - Google Search