Subscribe to British Baker Magazine from just £62.50

On workplace stress

- Published: 04 April, 2008

For those of you unfamiliar with the great man, the wholegrain bread-fixated godfather of the brand that still bears his name was a prophet of healthy living. But there was so much more to his repertoire, which should be a moral satnav for our own times.

On workplace stress: "Overwork is the cause of much disease and ill-health. Many people have an idea that the more work they can crowd into a lifetime, the better. This is a mistake. Every businessman should take two hours' exercise in the open air daily, otherwise his health will fail and his business necessarily suffer."