Apparently techies are unhealthy. BUPA has released a report today which says the technology and IT sector has “an unappetising set of diet and lifestyle statistics”.
Maybe they have a point because it is quite a high-pressure industry (technology, I mean, not IT). It is completely normal for designers and engineers to sleep the night under their desks when a project approaches a deadline.
BUPA found that a quarter of senior staff in the technology sector fail to take exercise at least once a week. This means you increase the risk of a heart attack by the same amount as a smoker – I don’t know if it is an exercising smoker or not.
I imagine that the truth is a quarter of all office-based workers fail to exercise at least once a week. In the technology sector we’re too busy coming up with devices that will do the exercise for us.