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Survey: Transportation workers have highest obesity rate.

 

USA Today (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-obese-workers/2194005/