Wednesday, February 26, 2014

People with Job's Natural High Risk of Obesity


Jakarta , Obesity is closely linked with a person's daily life . Including the type of work also appeared to affect the risk of obesity experienced by a person . At least that's what the study revealed in Washington , USA .
Huffington Post reported , medical experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention observations of 37 626 employees during the years 2003 to 2009 . In this study , the prevalence of obesity is influenced also by demographics , physical activity levels , smoking , consumption of fruits and vegetables , as well as leisure activities .
This study aimed to estimate the prevalence and risk factors of obesity according to his work at the same time informing someone of priority health programs in the workplace . The research team also analyzed the 28 occupational groups outside the military and construction personnel .
The results found that people who work as truck drivers and other modes of transportation , insurance providers , as well as the cleaning service has the highest obesity risk .
" BMI ( body mass index ) can not distinguish fat mass and tissue . However , workers with higher mobility demands likely to be physically fit and have a higher BMI due to increased muscle mass , " the researchers wrote in their report , as quoted from iVillage , Wednesday ( 02/26/2014 ) .
The study results also showed that the prevalence of obesity in the entire profession was 24.6 percent with a 11.6 percent are at risk of health-care providers such as doctors and health practitioners . Then, 38.6 percent worked as a truck driver .
Workers who smoke also have lower obesity prevalence than nonsmokers workers . Although , the proportion of smokers is highest in the lowest truckers and the health care provider . Even so , researchers warn that obesity can also be pressed regardless of the type of work you through the implementation of a healthy lifestyle .
Well, here are the results of a study that shows a list of professions with the prevalence of obesity :
1 . Truckers 38.6 %2 . Another 37.9 % of transport driver3 . Insurance services 33.3 %4 . Cleaning service 29.5 %5 . 28.8 % of health service providers6 . Repair services 28.9 %7 . Administrative staff 27.9 %8 . Personal Services 27.2 %9 . Technicians 26.6 %10 . Factory workers 26.1 %11 . Marketing 25.4 %12 . Management 25.1 %13 . Executive , administrative and managerial 24.4 %14 . Machine operators 23.9 %15 . Nurses 22.6 %16 . Agriculture , forestry and fishing 22.3 %17 . 21.8 % of teachers18 . Housemaid 21.9 %19 . Scientists 21.8 %20 . Lawyers and judges 21.7 %21 . Engineers , architects and surveyors 20.2 %22 . Employees restaurant 20.1 %

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