Over Work Obesity: Do you know that your work and your health are interlinked with each other. If you take too much stress, live under work pressure, then it harms your health and you can also become a victim of obesity. We are not saying this without reason, but recently a disease called overwork obesity has come to light, due to which the weight of a 24-year-old woman in China has increased by 20 kg in 1 year. But what is this overwork obesity, how can it affect you and how can you protect yourself from it, let us tell you.
Also read: WHO’s warning had no effect, people of India are continuously consuming ‘white poison’
What is overwork obesity
Overwork obesity is one of the reasons for obesity, which is caused by long hours of work pressure and living an unhealthy lifestyle. Nowadays it has been seen that many people work for 12-15 hours continuously sitting and remain engrossed in mobile, computer, laptop.
Due to this, their physical activity has become negligible, not only this, they do not take a healthy diet and consume unhealthy processed food which can be prepared quickly. This spoils their lifestyle and increases stress and this is a major cause of overwork obesity.
How to prevent overwork and obesity
Now the question arises that how can you prevent overwork obesity? So you have to balance your work life and personal life. You have to avoid stress eating, because many people eat extra food when they are under stress. You have to take a balanced diet of whole grains, protein and vegetables in your diet.
If you want to control your weight, then along with office work, you should also do physical activity in between and avoid sitting continuously for long hours. Mindfulness activity or meditation is needed to control stress hormones. Apart from this, you must sleep for 7 to 8 hours daily, because this can balance work life and obesity.
Disclaimer: Some of the information given in the news is based on media reports. Before implementing any suggestion, please consult the concerned expert.
Check out below Health Tools-
Calculate Your Body Mass Index (BMI)