engineers unhealthy?

dkin

I am an engineer and I just ate an Indian takeaway, along with soup. Not very healthy. So in my experience you are correct.

micromass

There doesn't seem to be any concrete evidence. So I'm locking this.

Astronuc

Quote by micromass

For good reason in my opinion!! Otherwise we would also believe in silly things like alien visitors and government conspiracies.

Evidence by personal anecdotes is not acceptable here. So please only post if you have some actual evidence.

I think most if not all evidence will be anecdotal. I doubt that there has been a scientific study on engineers and their health vs other groups of people. I was just at a large engineering facility where many of several hundred folks on site are engineers (as well as support staff). A vast majority were overweight. However, that probably reflects office workers more than it does engineers.

The CDC and NIH have records of studies on lifestyle and health (overweight, obesity). For example, http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/adult/causes/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedentary_lifestyle - one must review the citations.

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dkin	engineers unhealthy? I am an engineer and I just ate an Indian takeaway, along with soup. Not very healthy. So in my experience you are correct.

micromass Blog Entries: 8 Recognitions: Gold Member Science Advisor Staff Emeritus	There doesn't seem to be any concrete evidence. So I'm locking this.