The Fat Blue Line: The Jobs With the Highest Obesity Rates

Employers want their workers to be healthy—both for insurance-cost and humane reasons—but aspects of those very jobs can make workers sick. A study published this month in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that workers who toiled for more than 40 hours per week or were exposed to a hostile work environment were significantly more likely to be obese.

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Both of those are fairly intuitive—long hours at the office can make it hard to squeeze in exercise, and dealing with, shall we say, “a strong personality” all day can make it tempting to indulge in an extra helping of curly fries. (A more tragic explanation would be that people who are already obese are more likely to be harassed at work.)

But surprisingly, the researchers also found that certain industries and occupations in and of themselves correlate with higher obesity rates, even when controlling for the demographic makeup of those jobs.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/the-jobs-with-the-highest-obesity-rates/359849/

The Fat Blue Line: The Jobs With the Highest Obesity Rates

The Fat Blue Line: The Jobs With the Highest Obesity Rates

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