Is getting fat from work a "work injury"? Have you ever gotten fatter the busier you got?

Elephant News reporter Wang Shaoqing

"I don't feel it in the winter and spring, and I feel EMO in the summer. Due to the pressure of work, irregular diet, and recently gained a lot of weight, this summer will say goodbye to the small skirts that have been in stock for a long time, so is it a work injury caused by hard work?" In recent years, many people have been working under pressure, eating irregularly, and sleeping in the early morning, and their work has become busier and busier, but their bodies have become more and more "fat". Recently, many netizens asked the Elephant News hotline whether obesity is a work injury due to work? It is recommended that getting fat after work is also considered a work injury... In the reporter's interview, many people said that they did get a lot fat after going to work, so what caused them to get fat after work? Is workplace obesity a work injury?

10 pounds a year at work, have you ever gotten busier and fatter?

Why are people more tired at work and more likely to gain weight?

Attention to this issue has been unabated. The reporter noted that as early as a few years ago, there was a work injury application form on the Internet, and the main reason for the heated discussion at that time was the reason for the application on this application form, which read "overwork and fat".

According to the party's description of the injury, "Since joining the company for 5 years, the 996 work model has made me Alexander, often stay up late and work overtime, eat and drink with, from 130 pounds of small fresh meat to 200 pounds of middle-aged greasy men, causing dissatisfaction from my girlfriend ... I hope that the leader will give a month's leave to lose weight, lose dozens of pounds and then come back to work. ”

Whether it is online ridicule or indeed this matter, the topic of "overwork and fattening" has become a hot topic.

Chen Yi, after the 90s, told reporters that he gained 10 pounds in the first year of work, and the reason was that after going to work, the work was relatively busy, he could not eat on time, often he took care of eating very late at night, and lacked time to exercise, so he would "get busier and fatter".

Chen Yi's troubles, many people have encountered, the reporter in the visit, many young people said that they are also getting busier and fatter.

Getting fat because of work is not a "work injury"

Is getting fat at work counted as a work injury? This issue has also aroused the heated discussion of many people.

In this regard, Li Zhao, a full-time lawyer at Henan Guoji Law Firm, told reporters that according to the mainland's "Regulations on Work-related Injury Insurance", work injuries in the general sense refer to accidents and injuries suffered by workers due to work reasons during working hours and workplaces; accident injuries in the workplace before and after working hours, engaging in preparatory or finishing work related to work; traffic accidents or urban rail transit, passenger ferries, and train accidents that are not their main responsibility during commuting to and from work; Or an occupational disease.

"One of the cases that are regarded as work injuries is that the worker dies of a sudden illness during working hours and at work, or dies within 48 hours after rescue is ineffective." Li Zhao told reporters that injuries due to work reasons in the workplace during working hours generally require explicit injuries, and obesity itself is difficult to be identified as "injury" due to work reasons.

So is obesity an occupational disease? Under normal circumstances, diseases that meet the requirements of the law can be called occupational diseases, and the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases stipulates: "Occupational diseases refer to diseases caused by the exposure of workers of enterprises, public institutions and individual economic organizations and other employers to dust, radioactive substances and other toxic and harmful substances in their occupational activities." It can be seen that obesity itself does not belong to the category of "occupational diseases".

"However, if the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases caused by obesity suddenly occur while the worker is working and causes death, or within 48 hours after rescue is ineffective, this situation is regarded as a work injury." The worker's close relatives may require the employer or the work-related injury insurance fund to bear the corresponding liability for compensation. ”

Why is it easy to get fat at work? The doctor answers your questions

So what causes obesity? Why is it easy to get fat at work? Hu Yangxi, director and deputy chief physician of the Department of Metabolic Surgery at Zhengzhou Central Hospital affiliated to Zhengzhou University, told reporters that the causes of obesity can be divided into three categories, the first is primary obesity; The second is secondary obesity, which is due to some diseases, and the third is obesity caused by some genetic defects.

"More than 90% of our people are primary obese, including postpartum fat, staying up late, stress fat and so on. The main cause of primary obesity is related to heredity on the one hand, and to living habits on the other hand. Hu Yangxi said that people with primary obesity eat something, which is easily converted into energy and fat storage, resulting in obesity. In addition, it is that there are too many calories to eat, and the excess calorie consumption is less than what we consume eventually leads to obesity.

"For obesity, the role of genes and living habits account for half of each, that is to say, personal living habits are not good, which is also a very important reason for obesity." Hu Yangxi said, "For people in the workplace, staying up late and working overtime, long-term pressure is too great, the body will secrete a cortisol hormone, which can increase the desire for high-carbohydrate, high-fat foods, sedentary, lack of exercise, long-term past, people's basal metabolic rate slowly declined, and the ability to consume calories also decreased." ”

Chewing a meal 15 times before swallowing can slow down the rate of digestion and absorption

How to prevent the occurrence of obesity, Hu Yangxi believes that preventing obesity and controlling calorie intake is more important than exercising to lose weight.

"Before you get fat, you're ready to go." We need to control dinner, metabolism is slower at night, eat too much, it is easy to gain weight. Drink a bowl of soup before a meal, eat a fruit, chew a meal 15 times before swallowing, which can slow down the rate of digestion and absorption. At the same time, insist on walking 10,000 steps a day, at least twice a week aerobic exercise, each time about 90 minutes. ”

"Be sure not to eat those so-called slimming products on the market, which will make you fatter and fatter, and adhere to a low-fat, low-sugar, low-calorie, high-protein diet every day." Hu Yangxi said, "Obesity is a disease, we must pay enough attention. For the prevention and treatment of obesity, prevention is greater than treatment, because once obesity occurs, it is difficult to reverse. Studies have shown that for severe obesity, the success rate of weight loss through non-surgery is less than 1%. Hu Yangxi said.

In addition to "overwork" cervical spondylosis, frozen shoulder and other "occupational injuries" have you encountered?

At present, due to the rapid development of information office, long-term ambush, maintaining a posture unchanged, etc., many young white-collar workers suffer from cervical spondylosis, frozen shoulder, occupational low back pain and other diseases, cervical spondylosis has not only been a high incidence of the elderly, but also a common disease of young people around 30 years old, even including some school students.

The reporter learned that each industry has its own unique occupational diseases, some industry practitioners have accumulated diseases, excessive work pressure, long-term radiation environment, drinking and socializing into the "three high" crowd, etc., can be called "hidden work injury".

Li Zhao told reporters that only occupational diseases that belong to the "Classification and Catalogue of Occupational Diseases" can be recognized as work injuries, such as diseases suffered from long-term noise radiation sharing and other environments, typical of pneumoconiosis. In other cases, "occupational diseases" lack operability due to the recognition of work injuries, and it is very difficult to identify "hidden work injuries" as work injuries.

What jobs are you engaged in, what are the "hidden injuries" in the industry you are engaged in, and what invisible "occupational injuries" you think should be included in the work injuries, welcome to leave a message to talk about it.