Bungling bosses are actually making life worse by offering staff free biscuits

Comfort eating actually worsens stress.

Eating fatty foods during anxious times can impair the body’s recovery from the effects of stress. It can also increase the risk of cardiovascular disease – conditions affecting the heart or blood vessels.

And consuming foods high in fat before a mentally stressful episode can reduce oxygen getting to the brain. Rosalind Baynham, of the University of Birmingham, said: “Stress is something we all need to deal with.

“So, next time you are in a big meeting, or in a job interview try and resist the free biscuits and go for some berries. You might find you feel more relaxed.”

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The research team took a group of young healthy adults and gave them two butter croissants as breakfast. They then asked them to do mental maths, increasing in speed, alerting them when they got an answer wrong. It was designed to simulate everyday stress.

Ms Baynham added: “Consuming fatty foods when mentally stressed reduced vascular function by 1.74%. This impairment in vascular function persisted for even longer when our participants had eaten the croissants.”

Whether cheeky squirrels are stressed out snackers, we can't quite say but they caused quite the mystery for residents of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.

Litter louts who blighted a housing estate with half-eaten chocolate for months turned out to be greedy squirrels. Locals became gripped by the ‘whodunnit’ after Blue Riband bars kept appearing. The mystery was finally solved after a local who works in a nearby caravan storage facility spotted dozens of Blue Ribands inside a skip.

Another resident then spotted squirrels running up a tree with wrappers – and put two and two together.

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