According to a Leeds University study in Britain, women who work long hours are more likely to react negatively to stress than their male counterparts. Work stress causes women to eat unhealthy food, drink coffee and smoke more. Researchers claim that women are more vulnerable to work stress and thus become 'emotional eaters'-- reasoning that women try to escape themselves and their experience of stress by turning their attention to food. Male workers intake of caffeine, nicotine and calories are apparently not affected by working long hours. Perhaps some form of self-stress-management technique could help these women avoid the consumptive disturbance caused by overwork-- so they can avoid the contribution the extra calories and stress hormones make toward heart disease.
