Study: Desk Job Is Making You Fat

Sitting at your desk all day may be helping to add extra pounds around your waist, a new study suggests. “People eat better and exercise more today than they did in the 1970s, yet obesity rates continue to rise,” study researcher Carl-Étienne Juneau, of the University of Montreal, said in a statement. This seeming contradiction might be explained by changes in work habits, he said. The study found adults took in fewer calories in 2004 than they did in 1972, and leisure-time physical activity rose over a similar time period. But people have become less active at work over the last three decades, and this decreased activity may partly explain the rise in obesity , according to the researchers from the University of Montreal/MSNBC.com. More here . (SR file staff illustration)

Question: Do you have a job that keeps you confined to a desk?