Truckers have lower life expectancy: Study

I'm sorry if I made you upset...

And I hope you can over come your diabetes...

 

Not upset at all. Just making sure you understood what I meant by my post. I know its not always easy to understand 100% what someone said.

I'm managing it, but thank you for your comment.

 

EDIT: I found the info I was looking for...This is the LINK...
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Truck driver life expectancy may be shorter than the norm, but the sources FMCSA cited do not support the figure of 16 years shorter. The agency supplied two references.

One is a note in the March 2008 edition of the Roemer Report, which cites a study by Toronto researcher Dr. Martin Moore-Ede. Roemer said the study found "that truck drivers have a 10- to 15-year lower life expectancy than the average American male, who lives on average to age 76."

In response to an inquiry from TruckingInfo, Moore-Ede, the chairman and CEO of the international fatigue management firm Circadian, said that the item is incorrect. "The Web has kept on churning up this incorrect story for over 10 years now," he said. "I have not done such a study (and) I am not a Toronto researcher."

 

There's another thing I read about the human body wasn't built to take constant vibrations and jolting around. That's particularly true with dozer operators. But drivers are constantly hitting bumps and being jarred.

The main thing is diet and sleep though. You can't find anything healthy to eat at a truck stop. You can do the Walmart thing and then a week or two later your back to the fast food trying to get back to a Walmart. Eating healthy is a challenge for a driver.

 

Junk food becomes like 'cheap sex'...a cheap companion, while out on the road...anyone who's ever been out there will understand that statement...



There's really no easy solution except strict dicipline...which usually comes from support, which usually comes from love...

 

I thought you said something about junk food? Thats looks like a full meal to me, you got potatoes, meat, veggies & bread.


Everything in your picture is in the Food Pyramid except the soda.
For me, being a diabetic, the worst thing there is the bread.

 

Oh my gosh, if that looks like a complete meal to you, you've been driving way to long...

Hamburger, (white bread) fries, coke and fried chicken is not healthy...

Actually it depends on how it's prepared...or what it's prepared in...

You unintentionally brought up a neat quandry...and that is it's not so much what you eat as it is how it's prepared...

Potatoes are good, just not in the form of fast food fries...ect ect...

 

Thats what i was gettin at thats why i put a food chart there

 

Common sense would dictate that there is obviously a risk in a job where you sit for long periods. And if you increase it by a bad diet then... of course.
However 15 yrs. difference seems a bit much.
I know of 3 major learning establishments in the US where the administrator fudged numbers to ensure grant money for the school next year. I hear its SOP.
Junk science in other words and it happens in cancer research too among other things.

 

not only the food, and lack of excercise, but now also the fumes...

http://www.newsinferno.com/legal-news/diesel-fumes-linked-to-lung-cancer/