While trying to fish out reasons behind your plumpy look, don’t wink at your job, as may be reason lies there!
Actually, a new study comes up with concrete evidences proving higher psychological stress accompanied by lack of social support at work, paves the way for obesity. In other words, higher the stress levels, higher were the chances of turning obese. This conclusion is the result of an intensive study that lasted up to 19 years, while studying around 3,413 women and 6,895 men. All the participants were between the ages 35 to 55.
According to an estimate, more than half of workers say they work under a great deal of stress and 77 percent say they feel burnout on the job. Primary causes for stress at work include:
• Difficult co-workers (16%)
• Unrealistic workload (15%)
• Tight deadlines (11%)
• Last minute projects (10%)
• Overbearing or interfering boss (9%)
The way stress stirs up obesity, could be understood to some extent from the facts mentioned below:
• During stress, we tend to consume more calories in particular and more food in general
• Stress is often followed by fatigue, generally leading to decreased level of physical activity.
• Higher level of stress is often followed by imbalance in hormone system.
All these factors either directly or indirectly stir up obesity. Therefore, in order to curb obesity level, it is too important to bridle the stress level, first. Here it must be mentioned that stress in workplace poses risk of not only obesity and other health problems, but comes as a threat to the world economy too, by prompting depression among workers, which is confirmed by a survey, according to which 45% of the office workers are depressed.
Therefore, this will have to be ensured that stress doesn’t tide over the employees in working place, as it would hit not only employees’ health but health of global economy too.
