Study Connects Workplace Turmoil, Stress and Obesity

An article filled with crap.

A new study that provides a snapshot of a typical American workplace observed that chronic job stress and lack of physical activity are strongly associated with being overweight or obese.

How so?

Over and over, Fernandez's team heard the same story from the upstate workers: After spending the day sitting in stressful meetings or at their computers, they looked forward to going home and "vegging out" in front of the TV. Anecdotally, researchers also discovered that when pink slips were circulating, the snacks highest in fats and calories would disappear quickest from the vending machines. Some workers said they did not take the time to eat well or exercise at lunch because they were fearful of repercussions from leaving their desks for too long.

Well, duh.

Sit around eating and what do you expect?

And the "pink slip" - leave the desk for too long stuff?

More than likely it is a brown "red herring," if you know what I mean.

The kind of thing lazy, fat excusinators say to pollsters.

If you are fat and think that working our will help - do it on your own time away from work.

After all, you live with yourself outside of work, too.

And all the diseases of choice you either give or will give yourself don't punch a clock.

Here is more researcher crap.

"In a poor economy, companies should take care of the people who survive layoffs and end up staying in stressful jobs," Fernandez said. "It is important to focus on strengthening wellness programs to provide good nutrition, ways to deal with job demands, and more opportunities for physical activity that are built into the regular workday without penalty."

Workplace wellness programs will almost never work as they are tainted by the same fallacious foundation as other primarily weight loss programs.

To learn how to create a workplace wellness program with a chance of succeeding, go here.

This is interesting, though.

Unexpectedly, researchers also found that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables did little to offset the effect of chronic job stress on weight gain among the employees, who were mostly sedentary.

More evidence that it is not about "healthy" foods, which are non-existent.

Although there is healthy eating.

Bottom line, this whole research effort is another way of proving that fatsos are crybaby, nanny-staters who want the rest of us to cater to their lack of self-control.