Cue the jokes.
It turns out that police officers have the highest rate of obesity across all professions in the U.S., along with firefighters and security guards, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Cops, firefighters and security guards together have an obesity rate of 40.7 percent, according to the Journal.
How do other jobs compare?
Four other groups came in a bit lower, in the 30 percent range, but are still considered part of the "highest" in terms of percentage of obese workers:
• Social workers, clergy, counselors: 35.6• Home health care aides, massage therapists: 35.8
• Architects, engineers: 34.1
• Bus drivers, truckers, crane operators, garbage, collectors: 32.8
Things taper off considerably for these four groups, all considered part of the "lowest" range:
• Janitors, maids, landscapers: 23.5• Cooks, bartenders, food servers: 23.1
• Physicians, dentists, EMTs, nurses: 22.0
• Artists, actors, athletes, reporters: 20.1
But one group blows away the rest in terms of lack of obesity; folks in these three professions have by far the lowest percentage of workers in need of a diet, at a paltry 14.2 percent. They are...economists, scientists, and psychologists.
(H/T: Time)
