Weight Gain and Workplace Eating Habits

A comprehensive aspect of the study reviewed the correlation between domestic related stress coalesced with professional stress in the workplace. Both types of stress factors were forecasted in medical professionals who were overweight and were depicted in the calculation of their Body Mass Index or BMI (p=.001).

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Other common denominators were the propensity to consume food during feelings of loneliness or a way of making food the pay-off or reward. Additionally, the doctors who consumed food from the hospital cafeteria, or ordered were more apt to be overweight than the physicians who carried their lunch.

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For the vast majority of physicians stress is just another element of the job. Since many physicians work in environments where food is everywhere in the workplace, it�s easy for doctors to fall in the pitfall of overeating. The finding of the research study showed a relationship with weight in physicians who carried their lunch to work.


The evaluations of the consumption habits took the race, gender and age as other areas of review. Only, eight percent were obese and another forty-four percent of the physicians were overweight. Generally the male physicians who were over the age of 46 were twice as likely to be male. Over 25 percent were female and 50 percent.

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The conclusion of the study determined that since physicians are more prone to over indulging with food, stress-management could prove to be a good tactic to circumvent the urge to splurge.

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