Occupations with the most Obese people....Interesting..top 10

[brin]

Overweight occupations: Truckers top list of obese workers, study says - NY Daily News

 

[mjarrels]

Did you ever eat at a truck stop? Great food and plenty of it.

mark

 

[Gale Hawkins]

OTR drivers often only have the time to drive, eat and sleep with no safe place to take a 30 minute walk before and after a long day.

 

[Ridgewalker]

A little off topic but what the heck.

I was recently in the U.K. and France for two weeks
visiting my daughter. We traveled on the underground,
tubes, trains, took the Eurostar to Paris, etc so I was constantly
exposed to the locals.

I discovered the most amazing thing; there are no fat people
in France or the U.K. Ok, I saw about 10 and was able to determine
half of them were from the U.S.

So, what's going on in the U.S. to cause all this obesity?
I'm blaming it on processed foods until I get a better answer.

 

[300UGUY]

They don't have that southern food effect in their society. The fattest folks I know, white and black, are southern by heritage if not by birth. The folks from the south have a lot of yummy food, but you'd need to run marathons every other day to burn up all the calories.

Euro folks don't drive everywhere, either.

 

[newbury]

Agree with southern food. When we got down to Fulton Mississippi last fall I commented to my wife how I like to take her to Walmart down here. It makes her look pencil thin by comparison. Very few of those healthy svelte jogging types down here.

 

[Taylortractornut]

That study failed to mention professional bingo players to. I noticed mechanics are on the heavy list to. I'm doomed, I'm a mechanic drive a truck and shift materials at work. I think on the mechanic part is from eating comfort food trying suppress all the horrible things you see working on junk lol.

I just had my DOT physical and the np that gave it said that I was obese actually in her terms I would be my ideal weight if I was 10 feet tall. I'm 270 6'1. Also added in that I needed to walk 2 miles a day. I asked her to follow me in a 12 hour day the exercise. At work we did a study with a safety person that we had to wear a step counter. It calculated that I averaged about 5 miles per day to ten per day checking things at the landfill.

 

[jerrybob]

A little off topic but what the heck.

I was recently in the U.K. and France for two weeks
visiting my daughter. We traveled on the underground,
tubes, trains, took the Eurostar to Paris, etc so I was constantly
exposed to the locals.

I discovered the most amazing thing; there are no fat people
in France or the U.K. Ok, I saw about 10 and was able to determine
half of them were from the U.S.

So, what's going on in the U.S. to cause all this obesity?
I'm blaming it on processed foods until I get a better answer.

I think they should add Governor of New Jersey to the list.....but....in answer to your question....Obesity is a problem everywhere. 60% in America......50% in Europe. People are just too darn fat......lack of exercise and too much wrong food.

Obesity in America Compared to Europe | LIVESTRONG.COM

 

[Gary Fowler]

I lived in London UK for a bit, no car, took tube, bus or walked everywhere. English traditional food has to be the worst food in the universe over all. There are a few good dishes but most have to have an acquired taste so it is easy to see why the English should be skinny. The French cover over their terrible food with exotic sauces. Only in America, the southern portion specifically, do we really know how to make food taste good. That makes for a lot of tubby folks running around though. Southern food was developed to feed the field workers who needed a lot of calories to make it thru the day. Our lifestyles have changed but the food hasn't. This is true for all of America and then younger generation is really going to pot early in life. I would guess that 75% of the less than 30 folks are extremely overweight. Myself, being a baby boomer, grew up working hard and eating heavy foods like corn bread, beans lots of vegetables and a lot of sugary sweets. I needed it for the energy on the farm, but when I left the farm, my eating habits came with me but I stayed active and slim (6' tall-180lbs) till in my 40s when I started putting on about 2 pounds per year till I reached my heaviest of 240. I have gotten back to 225 fairly easily just eating what I want but not stuffing myself, but I am not trying to get to my 30s weight. I don't really believe in calorie counting diets as being healthy. I have friends that cycle up and down 40+ pounds and are always dieting. I don't think this is good for the body. I will just continue to watch my portions and see what happens. I am not going to start eating grass/bean sprout/raw vegetable shakes etc like some diets call for and not going for the weight watcher or Jenny Craig diets either.

 

[Ken]

I lived in London UK for a bit, no car, took tube, bus or walked everywhere. English traditional food has to be the worst food in the universe over all. There are a few good dishes but most have to have an acquired taste so it is easy to see why the English should be skinny. The French cover over their terrible food with exotic sauces. Only in America, the southern portion specifically, do we really know how to make food taste good. That makes for a lot of tubby folks running around though. Southern food was developed to feed the field workers who needed a lot of calories to make it thru the day. Our lifestyles have changed but the food hasn't. This is true for all of America and then younger generation is really going to pot early in life. I would guess that 75% of the less than 30 folks are extremely overweight. Myself, being a baby boomer, grew up working hard and eating heavy foods like corn bread, beans lots of vegetables and a lot of sugary sweets. I needed it for the energy on the farm, but when I left the farm, my eating habits came with me but I stayed active and slim (6' tall-180lbs) till in my 40s when I started putting on about 2 pounds per year till I reached my heaviest of 240. I have gotten back to 225 fairly easily just eating what I want but not stuffing myself, but I am not trying to get to my 30s weight. I don't really believe in calorie counting diets as being healthy. I have friends that cycle up and down 40+ pounds and are always dieting. I don't think this is good for the body. I will just continue to watch my portions and see what happens. I am not going to start eating grass/bean sprout/raw vegetable shakes etc like some diets call for and not going for the weight watcher or Jenny Craig diets either.

Gary I'll ask this since you have also traveled around the country. Is there any good food North of the middle of Missouri maybe Kansas City East West. ?
When growing up it was sweet rolls or pastry and time to do the morning chores then breakfast before going to school, Noon lunch and when getting in from school again cake or pie slices and time to do the chores again. When finished the evening meal was served. the heavy meal of roast or pork potatoes and enough veggies to feed a calf. and a small snack before going to bed .
Going into the service 5'11 and 29 around the waist. Have kept the eating habit just gained 10 inches and 40 pounds. Old and grey but Dr. thinks in good health for the age.

Maybe something else is causing the weight gain 6 to 10 soda pops a day all the eatable snacks ingested. no exercise other than looking at a cell phone. one digit typing.
Riding everywhere they travel no walking. running or play ground exercise.