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£1m study into why we snack under stress
04 June 2010
Researchers at the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health at the University of Aberdeen have won funding to study the link between workplace stress and consumption of chocolate. The funding comes as part of a €6 million, 5-year, European study on obesity.
The study will feature people from three workplaces, including shift-workers, one of which will have achieved a Healthy Working Lives Award. They are looking into factors such as whether it is tiredness or hunger that leads to snacking, or whether snacking on chocolate comes from the lack of choice of other foodstuffs. The researchers are planning to recruit 450 people from the Aberdeen area to take part in the study.
