2009 Diet Of The Year

Workplace stress can make you fat, study says Seattle Times

29.04.10

It's no exaggeration — your job is slowly killing you.

Years of research have shown that your job can help make you fat — sitting in front of a computer all day, eating bad cafeteria food. But your workplace stress level also can have an effect on your weight, according to a study from the University of Rochester.

Worse, the stress and corollary weight gain can increase chances of cardiovascular disease, depression and anxiety, according to the study's main author, Diana Fernandez, of the University of Rochester Medical Center's department of community and preventive medicine.

And all that stress means you're likely to collapse on your couch when you get home, watching too much TV and "vegging out."

"In a poor economy, companies should take care of the people who survive layoffs and end up staying in stressful jobs,"Fernandez said, in a news release publicizing the study.

Workplace stress "affects how people sleep, which means they drink too much caffeine"at work, said Eric Braverman, a professor of neurological surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital and weight loss columnist for the Huffington Post. "The carbs make them fat, the salt makes them tired,"and all of that leads to lethargy after work and the potential for weight gain.

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