Is your job a burden to weight gain?

A study in Finland and published in the International Journal of Obesity shows a link between weight gain and fatigue related to work. After a hard day of work, they would be used less willing to cook healthy? They Evacuating stress snacking or rushing on vending machines?



When work is a burden ...
The study included 7,000 women and 1,800 men in administrative positions in Helsinki, capital of Finland.
Officials were asked to report whether they had gained weight in the year preceding the study and the number of hours they had realized. They also had to rate their level of exertion by answering positively or negatively to a number of statements:

I feel totally exhausted after a day's work.
I feel tired in the morning on days when I have to get up for work.
I work too hard.
I'm completely exhausted.
My job is just too stressful.
I think about my work even during vacation / during the weekend.
If they respond positively to at least four of these assertions, the degree of fatigue at work was considered very high.

At work: frustration and weight gain
Almost a quarter of women (24%) and 19% of men had gained weight in the year preceding the study.
Fatigue generated by the work was very high in 15% of women and 13% men.
As for overtime (over 40 hours / week), 20% of men and 13% of women had been abused in the year preceding the survey.
The study revealed, for men and women, a relationship between a high degree of fatigue, provision of overtime and weight gain. In addition, women who complained of poor balance between time spent at work and at home the past proved still more likely to gain weight. Similarly, men who were less restrictive position were less likely to show additional pounds.

Curb weight gain phenomenon
What the survey does not reveal, are the concrete reasons why overworked workers had gained weight. No questions were asked about the diet of the study participants nor their sport habits and daily exercise.
Several hypotheses have been advanced, however:

who later worked evenings had perhaps used to fall back on snacks or fast food, usually more calories;
workers showed a high degree of fatigue were too exhausted on the way home in the evening to cook a healthy meal and would have, too, abused snacks and fast foods;
tired workers were also too exhausted to practice regular physical exercise.
The latter is regarded as crucial by the investigators emphasize that exercise not only helps keep a stable weight or lose weight but also to better manage the stress of a demanding job. Exercise daily or regular practice of a sport would therefore be a possible solution to fight against weight gain related to the stress of the worker.

As for finding a new job, less damaging to the moral and physical health, the study does not mention ...