People Consume 800 Extra Calories Per Day When Working From Home

There can be some benefits to working from home, some of those may not be good for your waistline. According to a new survey, working at home can lead to excessive snacking that adds up to an extra 800 calories a day. Plus, people take an average of 35-hundred fewer steps a day when working from home.

The poll of 2-thousand hybrid workers from the diet tracking app MyFitnessPal also finds:

• About a third (36%) admit they snack even when they’re not hungry, while 60% say they eat more unhealthily at home.
• Participants kept a log of their food and tracked their steps on a day they worked from home and researchers compared that to the data from a day in the office.
• While working from home, they took an average of 4,518 steps, only a little over half of the 8,087 steps they walk on an average day in the office.
• On a day of working from home, participants consumed an average of 2,752 calories, but during a typical day in the office, they consumed 1,961 calories, 791 fewer calories.

Source-NY Post