Dr Rita Fontinha: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- psychologist at the University of Reading
- Quoted on
- Public health & prevention
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Sept 2026
“If you work two jobs or long hours, you simply do not have the energy to cook and it becomes easier to just buy something packaged or processed. A four-day week or different forms of working-time reduction could be associated with better choices in terms of food, exercise and sleep to contribute to healthier societies.”
Where Dr Rita Fontinha has been quoted
- Experts call for UK four-day week as study links long work hours to obesitytheguardian.com · 10 Sept 2026
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