Is Your Job Making You Fat?

It's long been known that your job can cause all sorts of health and emotional problems, particularly if you are unhappy in your job or work in a hazardous environment, but most people probably wouldn't think their job could be making them fat! Obesity and overweight in America has been on the rise for years, and researchers are constantly looking for new ways to identify causes and prevent or slow this epidemic.

With more electronics, technology, and machines, some jobs that used to be manual labor are now performed by operators sitting behind a computer screen or machine controls. Where once we had to walk to a co-workers offices to give them a message, now we can just push a button for the intercom or shoot off an email.

When the average person works 7-10 hours per day, and if most of that time is spent in a sedentary job, it's no wonder it's hard to find time to keep active along with all the other responsibilities of life.

Let's look at the reasons your job might be making you fat:

Your job might be making you fat because... You Forget To Eat:

I now this sounds counter-productive and forgetting to eat sounds like it should result in weight loss, but that's not the case. It's not unusual for an American worker to wake and skip breakfast in a rush to head to work or get the family off to school or work. Then a deadline or finances or time simply keeps one from eating lunch, or else eats only a small lunch, and then back at the grindstone.

Then what happens? Well, you probably leave work, run errands, pick up kids or groceries or run to pay bills, then make it home and you have homework, housework, personal responsibilities, and the like. Finally, sometime after seven in the evening, you decide to eat a big meal, and then you sit and don't move until bedtime, where you sleep and don't move for the next 6-8 hours or so.

With this lifestyle, the only big meal of the day is eaten after all activity that would burn off the calories from that meal have ceased!

Your job might be making you fat because...You Don't Move Much at Work: