Computers can make you fat – and not just from lack of exercise.

Research shows that staring at a computer screen makes us work up an appetite for sweet treats like chocolate cake and biscuits.

It is thought that the mental stress of computer work triggers changes in blood sugar and hormone levels that trick the brain into thinking it has worked off lots of calories that need replaced.

Computer games and TV watching have the same effect, the International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm heard.

Researcher Jean-Philippe Chaput suggests that office workers who want to keep trim should take regular screen breaks – and even consider typing while standing up.

Dr Chaput, of the University of Copenhagen, started to research the subject after noticing how is supervisor regularly snacked on chocolate biscuits when doing computer work.

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Lindsay Lohan swapped her designer duds and barely there bikinis for a regular, prison regulation orange jumpsuit yesterday when she checked into Lynwood Correctional Institute for women.

But the troubled starlet gave us one last glimpse of the scantily clad body we’ll have to do without in a sexy photo shoot for Complex magazine.

Lohan posed for famed photographers Markus Klinko and Indrani (who claimed she enjoyed a lesbian relationship with the starlet) back in May.

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