A new study argues that the combination of chronic workplace stress & a lack of physical activity is turning the typical American office worker into that guy (see above)
Lead author Diana Fernandez, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., an epidemiologist at the URMC Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, said her study is among many that associate high job pressure with cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, depression, exhaustion, anxiety and weight gain.

Not good.
They found that 72 to 75 percent of the employees were overweight or obese.
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Most of the study volunteers were middle-aged, white, married, highly educated (college degree or more), relatively well-paid (earning more than $60,000 a year), with an average of almost 22 years at the company.
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And not too surprisingly, more than 65 percent of the employees said they watched two or more hours of […]

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