{"id":42171,"date":"2018-05-07T15:01:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T19:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atlantictraining.com\/blog\/?p=42171"},"modified":"2025-10-07T19:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:58:46","slug":"us-workers-obese-lack-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlantictraining.com\/blog\/us-workers-obese-lack-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Obesity, Lack of Sleep Plagues Most U.S. Workers According to NIOSH Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

As if U.S. worker’s aren’t already plagued by stress, NIOSH conducted a study using data published by the\u00a0Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine back in December that suggests that 1 in 5 U.S. workers are either obese or are lacking sleep.<\/p>\n

When broken down, NIOSH reports that more than 20 percent of workers are obese, don’t get enough physical activity during the day, or are short on adequate sleep.<\/p>\n

Roughly 16-30 percent of workers had a body mass index of 30 or higher. the study also concluded that 1 in 5 workers had not gotten any physical activity in the past month.<\/p>\n

Additionally, about 31-43 percent of workers in the sample reported getting less than 7 hours a sleep per night.<\/p>\n

Because the study had respondents from different occupational groups, it concluded that certain professions reported a significant amount more of each of these risk factors than others.\u00a0Transportation and other material moving employees reported more of all three of these health risks more than any other employee.<\/p>\n

In the category of shortened sleep time, production, healthcare and healthcare technical services reported higher percentages of lack of sleep<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Obesity, lack of sleep, and lack of physical exercise are three very common risk factors for heart diseases such as:<\/p>\n