Figure 1.
Service, goods producing and agriculture jobs in US from 1960 to 2008.
The top panel depicts the prevalence of service occupations, goods producing occupations and agricultural occupations for the US from 1960 to 2008. The middle and lower panels depict the sectors within the good producing (middle panel) and service occupations (lower panel).
Table 1.
Estimated median and range of physical activity intensity (METs) as well as the estimated caloric expenditure of each occupation.
Figure 2.
Trends in the prevalence of sedentary, light and moderate intensity occupations from 1960 to 2008.
Figure 3.
Occupational METs and energy expenditure since 1960.
The upper panel of Figure 3 plots the mean occupation-related METs since 1960 and the lower panel presents the mean occupational daily energy expenditure in men and women since 1960.
Figure 4.
Predicted weights and NHANES weights.
Figure 4 presents the energy balance model predicted mean U.S. body weight based on change in occupation related daily energy expenditure since 1960 compared to mean U.S. weight gain based on the NHANES examination periods for 40–50 year old men (left panel) and women (right panel).