Working long hours has a greater negative impact on women than men because it makes them more likely to smoke, drink coffee and eat unhealthy food.
" Women who work long hours eat more high - fat and high - sugar snacks, exercise less, drink more caffeine and, if smokes, smoke more than their male colleagues," said Dr. Daryl O' Connor, a reseacher at Britain's Leeds University.
" For men, working longer hours has no negative impact on exercise, caffeine intake or smoking," O' Connor said in a statement released by the Economic and Social Research Council, which funded his study.
O' Connor's team of scientists were studying the impact of stress on eating habits. They looked at what causes stress at home and at work and how people react to it.
The results show that stressful events such as making a presentation, a meeting with the boss or missing a deadline were linked to eating more between - meal snacks and fewer or smaller portions of fruits and vegetables.
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