For example, the federal government is now in the business of limiting lunch-time calories to high school athletes.

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Roughly a fifth of the people polled now bring a flask and food to work to save money, and the average time spent on lunch has shrunk from a far-from-leisurely 33 minutes to an indigestion-inducing 19 minutes over the same period.

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