Keeping It Real
We are now firmly in the area of generalized stereotypes, but you have all seen it before so there is no reason to pretend it doesn’t happen. We have seen the gardener who has a lean and muscular body, the cook with a rosy look, the office worker with a pot belly and the laborer with sinew. Of course these are generalizations and there will be plenty of variations as to how people look and their weight even if they work in the same profession. I have always believed that the work that you do will have a profound effect on how you look. In this brief article I will try to explain some of the issues that your profession can raise which impact on your overall weight.
Work and Life
If you consider that we tend to spend the majority of our lives at our places of work, you can work out the level of influence that our profession can have on our weight. I am now referring to the fact that what you do outside work is mainly to sleep so most of your active life is spent at the place where you earn a living. The habits you learn and practice there will have a profound effect on your level of weight. This is not to ignore the impact of your habits at home or during leisure time but it is a fact that the less time you spend in a place, the less the impact it will have in your overall lifestyle.
Some professions encourage a large intake of food by virtue of their own intrinsic nature. If you are a cook, you will regularly have access to food and will be exposed to attractive smells on a daily basis. You will be in a position to indulge your passion for snacks if you so wish. You will be in a position to have as much food as you like without necessarily having to pay for it outright. This can lead you to over eat and gain weight. However if you work in an office which does not have a cafeteria, then you will have to rely on your meager sandwich that you packed in the morning. Your food intake will be considerably less than those that have unlimited access to flavorsome food.
Some jobs require quite a lot of physical power to be able to accomplish. The example I gave is that of the gardener who toils on a daily basis and burns more calories in a day than someone who goes to the gym three times a week. This means that even if that gardener is over eating, the amount of calories he is using up at work more than mitigate for any excess intake that he may have consumed. This will mean that on balance he will remain healthy and relatively less overweight than someone who has a sedentary profession yet consumes the same amount of calories as the gardener. That is why gardeners tend to have relatively few weight issues when you compare them to other less physical professions.
We are now firmly in the area of generalized stereotypes, but you have all seen it before so there is no reason to pretend it doesn’t happen. We have seen the gardener who has a lean and muscular body, the cook with a rosy look, the office worker with a pot belly and the laborer with sinew. Of course these are generalizations and there will be plenty of variations as to how people look and their weight even if they work in the same profession. I have always believed that the work that you do will have a profound effect on how you look. In this brief article I will try to explain some of the issues that your profession can raise which impact on your overall weight.
If you consider that we tend to spend the majority of our lives at our places of work, you can work out the level of influence that our profession can have on our weight. I am now referring to the fact that what you do outside work is mainly to sleep so most of your active life is spent at the place where you earn a living. The habits you learn and practice there will have a profound effect on your level of weight. This is not to ignore the impact of your habits at home or during leisure time but it is a fact that the less time you spend in a place, the less the impact it will have in your overall lifestyle.
Some professions encourage a large intake of food by virtue of their own intrinsic nature. If you are a cook, you will regularly have access to food and will be exposed to attractive smells on a daily basis. You will be in a position to indulge your passion for snacks if you so wish. You will be in a position to have as much food as you like without necessarily having to pay for it outright. This can lead you to over eat and gain weight. However if you work in an office which does not have a cafeteria, then you will have to rely on your meager sandwich that you packed in the morning. Your food intake will be considerably less than those that have unlimited access to flavorsome food.
Some jobs require quite a lot of physical power to be able to accomplish. The example I gave is that of the gardener who toils on a daily basis and burns more calories in a day than someone who goes to the gym three times a week. This means that even if that gardener is over eating, the amount of calories he is using up at work more than mitigate for any excess intake that he may have consumed. This will mean that on balance he will remain healthy and relatively less overweight than someone who has a sedentary profession yet consumes the same amount of calories as the gardener. That is why gardeners tend to have relatively few weight issues when you compare them to other less physical professions.
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