An article by health writer Tara Parker-Pope cites the sedentary
workplace as the potential cause for obesity’s meteoric rise in
the past few decades. According to a study led by researchers
from Louisiana State University: Over the last 50 years in the
U.S. we estimate that daily occupation-related energy
expenditure has decreased by more than 100 calories, and this
reduction in energy expenditure accounts for a significant
portion of the increase in mean U.S. body weights for women and
men. read more… The report shows that in 1960, one out of two
Americans had a job that was physically active. Now it is
estimated that only one in five Americans achieves a relatively
high level of physical activity at work. “If we’re going to try
to get to the root of what’s causing the obesity epidemic, work-
related physical activity needs to be in the discussion,” said
Dr. Timothy S. Church, a noted exercise researcher at the
Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., and
the study’s lead author. “There are