Association between work-related factors and diet: a review of the literature

This 2019 study hypothesized that working conditions can influence a person’s diet and thus reviews the published literature analysing the association between work-related factors (such as work hours, shift work, job, physical and mental strain, support) and quality of diet. The 16 selected articles were found by performing a literature search on PubMed for those available online, written in English, published between 2000 and 2017, and set in high-income countries. Although there was some evidence of unhealthy dieting among shift workers, data on the diet quality in association with other work-related factors, such as number of hours worked, physical, mental, job strain, and worksite support were scarce. Tanaka et. al (2019) encourages additional studies to implement a different design to investigate the association between work-related factors and quality of workers’ diets. [NPID: performance, workplace nutrition, shift work]

Year: 2019

Reference: Tanaka, R., Tsuji, M., Tsuchiya, T., & Kawamoto, T. (2019). Association Between Work-Related Factors and Diet: A Review of the Literature. Workplace health & safety, 67(3), 137–145. https://doi.org/10.1177/2165079918812481

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