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Why then, for example, are cleaning services workers, mechanics, and health workers all more obese than average? Those are jobs where you are much more active t
by elil17 4y ago
Why then, for example, are cleaning services workers, mechanics, and health workers all more obese than average? Those are jobs where you are much more active than an office worker. Those are all cases where someone gets exposed to chemicals (cleaning chemicals, lithium grease, and PFAS-based medical fabrics). In fact, healthcare support workers are more obese than healthcare technicians, even though technicians are more sedentary. Support workers are the ones changing PFAS-based curtains, garments, etc.
- boltzmann-brain 4y agoit's easier to explain it by more stress, less money, less ability to care for their health or eat healthily, etc etc.
- spywaregorilla 4y agoThe number one most obese job is a truck driver. Your hypothesis is that chemicals cause obesity. You cite cleaning services workers as receiving substantially more chemicals due to their work than the average person. Why then, are truckers more obese? If this is the primary factor causing obesity, and these people are receiving substantially more exposure than everyone else, why aren't they substantially the fattest group? Also fwiw, the idea that healthcare support workers are supposed to represent the largest exposure to PFAS because they're handling garments is ridiculous. I doubt healthcare support workers are even in the top 10% of actual exposure levels.
- Qem 4y agoVolatile organic compounds from upholstery and plastics in the dashboard may explain it. Spending a lot of time in trucks is like living in a mobile plastic house.
- spywaregorilla 4y agoIt seems insane to me that someone would think the reason truckers, who spend all day every day sitting down and eating on the go foods, are fat because their dashboards have plastic in them.
- Qem 4y agohttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1001074212603337 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10010...
- spywaregorilla 4y agoChanges literally nothing. I have no doubt that most truckers would still be fat if they had a tank of the freshest, purest air piped directly into their lungs 24/7.