[H+T--Friends] Survey: Transportation Workers Have Highest Obesity Rate

This interesting information may be of interest to you and your networks. Survey: Transportation workers have highest obesity rate. USA Today <http://mailview.bulletinhealthcare.com/mailview.aspx?m=2013052001ama&r=1726075-92fb&l=007-81e&t=c> (5/17, Langfield, 1.71M) reported that according to a survey conducted by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, “transportation workers have a 36% obesity rate, the highest rate among 14 occupation groups measured by Gallup based on interviews with more than 139,000 American workers from Jan. 2 to Sept. 10, 2012. For manufacturing and production workers, 30% are obese, followed by 28% of installation or repair workers and 26% of office workers.” But, “on the lighter end of the scale, 14% of physicians were obese, followed by 20% of business owners and 21 percent of teachers.” http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/05/19/bus-drivers-most-ob…