Truckers Vs Obesity

There are more than sixty percent of adult Americans that are categorized as being overweighted. Each year obesity causes at lease three hundred thousand deaths in the United States.The statistics are even worse for truckers. Studies show that aproximately seventy three percent of drivers are overweighted and more than fifty percent are obese.There are too many drivers today that is in very poor health condition.Many is caused by poor eating habits and lack of exercise. Due to these issues at hand many truckers are at risk of major diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, stroke, sleep apnea and cancer. More drivers now are being forced off of the road due to the blood pressure rule.The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration plan to create a national registry of certified medical examiners to make passing the department of transpotation's required physical a more rigorons process.The trucking lifestyle make getting regular exercise difficult.You have to burn off the calories and sitting in a cab for ten to eleven hours a day isn't much help for exercising. Limited food choices can be an enormous challenge for truckers trying to lose weight. Sometime it seems as if our stomarch has only three settings, we feel like we're starving, or feel like we are stuffed or like we can eat more. Most time I feel like we are in the middle, we're neither hungry nor full, but if something is in front of us, we will eat it.

Truckers have fewer choices when it comes to exercise. The key to success is to make it a regular planned part of your day as a trucker. Walking is the most convenient and easy way to begin a fitness program. It has been calculated by Schneider's Health Counselors that thirty two trips walking around the rig equals one full mile. Along with your walking program you should try to figure out other ways to satisfy cravings for variety of interest. Where food once filled that need, try to substitute creative interesting activities into your life. A few great tips for truckers exercises are followed. Always keep a dumbbell in the truck for a few sets of curls and extensions for biceps,triceps and shoulders.Two or three minutes a day of jogging in place or jumping jacks is a good habit.Leg lifts and squats keep blood flowing in the legs and preventing blood clots.Also push ups and sit ups are great for your daily work out.Obesity is a huge problem for truckers, but with determination we all can work our way to a healthy life style,and accomplish any goal that we set our minds to,so we can feel great about who we are and what we do for living. So let's work together and win back the war against obesity in the trucking industry.