Business travel is bad for your health

Living life à la George Clooney in Up in the  Air–that is travelling all the time for work–results in poor BMI and obesity, says a study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Actually, referring to this business travel as down on the ground rather than up in the air is more accurate, as 81 percent was conducted in cars (in this study at least). And as you might expect, it’s the poor food choices while on the road and spending much time sitting that were leading factors to the health issues.

More specifically, employees who travelled 20 days or more per month had average BMI of 27.5kg/m2 compared to 26.1 for employees who travelled less than six days monthly.

Business travel not looking so glamorous anymore, eh?

4 Comments May 3, 2011

Would you like a free side of statins with that?

Some UK researchers are proposing that along with picking up your ketchup and salt at the condiment counter in fast food joints, you should also have the choice of getting a cholesterol-busting statin tablet to counteract the effects of your fatty meal.

2 Comments August 16, 2010

Fast food nation

Eating fast food is expanding our waistlines, but even just mere exposure to fast food has been discovered by researchers at the Rotman School of Management to be linked to making us more impatient and less willing to save money.

2 Comments March 26, 2010