{"id":89878,"date":"2026-05-28T16:19:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89878"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:19:02","slug":"working-longer-hours-could-increase-the-risk-of-obesity-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/28\/working-longer-hours-could-increase-the-risk-of-obesity-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Working longer hours could increase the risk of obesity \u2013 here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA21eaNw.img?w=768&h=512&m=6\" alt=\"A person working on a laptop in their home\" width=\"609\" height=\"406\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new study suggests a link between longer working hours and higher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/obesity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">obesity<\/a> rates, indicating that a more balanced life leads to better health outcomes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/working-longer-hours-could-increase-the-risk-of-obesity-here-s-why\/ar-AA22UFcn?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a1865731cc549fd95af6e4c1a77479d&ei=79\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A new study suggests a link between longer working hours and higher\u00a0obesity rates, indicating that a more balanced life leads to better&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/work-from-home.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89879,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89878\/revisions\/89879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}