Re:Microsoft Flight Simulator
by pkaye on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @12:37PM
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If you look at some statistics (can't find it now) I seem to recall sales and marketing have lower prevalence of obesity. Meanwhile construction workers have higher. I think what matters more is less stress in a job, eating healthy and doing physical activity regularly.
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Alternative explanation: overweight people don't get hired for sales and marketing jobs.
So why do construction workers who are more active still have obesity?
You'd need a wider sample of sedentary office workers than just sales and marketing to make that conclusion.
Okay I finally found the article.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/the-jobs-...
I'd say the physically active jobs are actually on the middle to upper half of the list. Transportation, warehousing, manufacturing and construction for example.