Experts say your lunch hour is critical for keeping your productivity and energy levels up. Working or rushing through it can be detrimental to your success.

“Your lunch hour is your chance to get refocused, reenergized, and refueled (literally) for the rest of your day,” says Michael Kerr, an international business speaker and author of “The Humor Advantage. “Successful people treat it like the half-time show at a football game – an opportunity to regroup and consider how they’re going to play out the rest of their day.”