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| Why not breakfast at work? |
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| Coffee and doughnuts vs. a real breakfast at work
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 | | CENTRAL OREGONIAN | | Vance W. Tong is the publisher and editor of the Central Oregonian, and while breakfast at work sounds great, his waistline says otherwise. He can be reached at: vtong@eaglenewspapers.com |
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In today's paper, there is a story on the Crook County School District's consideration of a Breakfast in the Classroom program.
Now, I'm not going to pass judgement on this program just yet. On the surface, it appears to have some benefits and I'm sure the school board will give it fair consideration before making a final decision.
But the idea behind this program stirred my gray matter.
Why not a Breakfast at Work program?
Granted, I don't have the resource base that the school district does, so paying for the program might present a bit of a problem, but that's another issue.
As for the need, I know that I rarely get breakfast before I make my way to the office, and I know that several of my employees fall into the same category.
If there is food at the good ol' Central Oregonian, it's usually something that falls on the low end of the health food scale. Doughnuts are a prime example. The only saving grace we have is that recent studies have shown that coffee has some health benefits.
The Harvard Women's Health Watch reported that "risk for type 2 diabetes is lower among regular coffee drinkers than among those who don't drink it. Also, coffee may reduce the risk of developing gallstones, discourage the development of colon cancer, improve cognitive function, reduce the risk of liver damage in people at high risk for liver disease, and reduce the risk of Parkinson's disease.
Trust me, most of the people at the Central Oregonian drink enough coffee to stave off diabetes, gallstones, and any other ailment that java prevents.
But getting back to the idea of breakfast foods at work, there is another inherent problem.
As much as we adults might like to think that we burn excess calories through our incredibly difficult work, several of us (myself included) have waistlines that say otherwise. We simply just don't burn energy like kids do.
Consequently, the idea of breakfast at work is one that's probably doomed to failure. I'd start it and my employees would love it for a week or two, before they started complaining that I was making them fat.
I guess I'd better just stick to our present program of every employee for themselves.
Now, where's my coffee cup?
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