Gotta love that dashboard dining!
by Bob Keller
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posted Oct 26 2011 7:26PM
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A study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine claims that the amount of time you spend in your car each day affects how much you weigh. If you have a long commute, you're more likely to be fat than someone whol lives 10 minutes from work is. Seems your commute affects your waistline more than things like your income, education, gender or ethnicity. For every 30 minutes commuters drove each day, they had a three percent greater chance of being obese than their peers who drove less did. Bad news for those super commuters - gives "Super size me" a whole new meaning....
Tags : Social : commute, driving, eating, fatPeople : Kat
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