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IT Workers Are Getting Fatter
buzzardsbay writes "While technologies such as virtualization, multi-threading, and blade servers have made the data center leaner, those who work there are getting... well... not leaner. According to a new study by CareerBuilder.com, 34 percent of IT workers say they have gained more than ten pounds in their current jobs. And 16 percent say they've gained at least twice that. The culprits seem to be the stressful-yet-sedentary nature of tech work coupled with our famously poor eating habits. According to the survey, some 41 percent of IT workers eat out for lunch twice or more per week, making portion and calorie control difficult. Eleven percent buy their lunch out of a vending machine at least once a week."
I'm a vegetarian.
I used to weigh about 250 pounds. My current weight is about 180. The majority of the weight I lost was when I was an omnivore. It wasn't a wholesale change in my diet, it was a vast increase in exercise.
I have gained about 10 pounds since I left my last job, but that's because my old job was a 25 minute bike ride away and I'd walk around at lunch.
My new job is a 10 minute drive (I take the kids to daycare now) and I don't really have anywhere to walk to.
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Your post makes no sense.
NOBODY is suggesting you're gonna gain more than 1kg of mass from eating 1 kg of food. No one.
Usually the energy density of food is somewhat less than 100%, unless you're drinking olive oil. Calories are a measure of the amount of heat produced when the carbs, protein, and fat in your food are burnt under laboratory conditions. It's a measure of available energy. This energy can be stored as lipids in the body, and those lipids, or fat, have a mass. It's around 3600 calories per pound of body fat if I'm not mistaken. This correlates just fine with conservation of mass.
In the future, while you're checking up on principles of physics, check out the laws of thermodynamics too.
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And nobody modded up a "Bastard Operator From Hell" joke?
This is supposed to be news for nerds. Come on. What next? Will we start ignoring naked petrified Natalee Portman?
On to serious matters. This report is really just fudging numbers. Government and financial workers gain more weight at the current job because, surprise. They have been there longer.
IT geeks count the time we stay at a job we like in months. Government and financial workers typically start a job straight out of collage and stay there ontil middle age turns them into blimps.
So basicaly it's "Did you gain more than 10 lbs between age 21 and age 42?" vs "have you gained more than 10 lbs so far this year?"
iMac vs Sunfire V240. Not a fair (or reasonable) comparison.
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You actually burn about 60 per hour.
Your body's doing a lot while sleeping. Your heart's beating, your core body temperature is maintained (this takes a reasonable amount of energy just by itself), systemic repair mechanisms are working, you're tossing and turning, etc.
occultae nullus est respectus musicae - originally a Greek proverb
"walking isn't enough"
Speaking as someone who walked off 50 lbs in four months, walking is enough if you do A LOT of it, i.e. 3-4 hrs 7 days/week, you have to go by distance over time walked, i.e. you count distance, not time. All it takes is some balls and commitment and you can makeup for it on days off and what have you, one of people's biggest reason for not losing wait is making excuses and having become accustomed to bad habits.
The article is about getting fatter which has everything to do with calories not nutrients. The conversation IMHO is about the original poster incorrectly correlating fast food with weight gain because it's considered "junk food". That is plain wrong. If you'd like we can call it "junk food", but it's still overeating that makes you fat. Like I said before "eating nutritiously won't make you loose weight." And that's a fact. My statement about soda and juice was supporting that fact.
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Twice in the same thread!? My signature can't take it anymore! It's going to commit seppuku.
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.