Even if you’re lucky enough to HAVE a job, you just can’t win! Being in the office makes you fat and it turns out that people who travel extensively for business have increased rates of poor health and health risk factors, including obesity and high blood pressure. Maybe you should send your avatar to the conference instead?
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Snacking, especially drinking sodas, continues to increase among Americans, accounting for more than 25% of calorie intake each day. The amount of secondary eating and drinking–consumption while engaged in another activity–has also increased. And beverages account for 50% of the calories consumed through snacking.
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If you can catch fat from the people around you, this may make sense: Your office can make you fat. Is all that sitting making you wider? Although office snacks might boost morale are they also sabotaging your health? The conclusion, based on increases in sick days, is yes. It has been shown that just the sight or smell of candy, cookies, donuts and other sugary sweet concoctions triggers a desire to eat some.read more
When we diet, the fat comes back, and not only that, we get WIDER as we get older–and it’s not just because we gain weight! By the age of 20, most people have reached skeletal maturity and do not grow any taller. Until recently it was assumed that skeletal enlargement elsewhere in the body also stopped by age 20. But researchers now know that the pelvis ("hipbones") continue to widen as people grow older.
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