Traffic Weight & Big Game Monday

Does traffic cause you to gain weight? Dangerous Dave talks about a study that links weight gain to being stuck in traffic. Plus, did you skip work today? Millions do the day after the big game.

Episode Transcript

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He's deeper in the din with dangerous day? Do you
snack a lot in the car? But you know, traffic
around the country might be a little lighter today because
a lot of people skip it to work because of
the Super Bowl. But that could be good news for
your waistline. A new study from the Journal of Urban
Economics found that heavy traffic makes people gain weight. It

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comes down to meal choices. Researchers looked at three years
worth of data traffic and GPS data. They found that
heavy traffic makes people more likely to eat fast food,
especially for dinner. They think it's because you're less likely
to want to cook when you've been stuck in traffic. Also,
I'm like getting home, do I really want to cook now?
People were also less likely to swing by the grocery

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store when traffic was bad, so they think that is
more evidence of it being true. They also found that
some people like to snack in the car, and if
you spend more time in your vehicle, you're more likely
to snack. So if you're overweight, blame it on the
fact that you were behind a total of five cars
there on South Washington and tomorrow deeper in the two Well,

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did you wake up this morning, pull yourself together and
force yourself to go to work, or did you come
up with that bug that's going around well. According to
an annual survey and estimated twenty two point six million
workers plan to miss work today super Bowl Monday. Yep.
That's up from sixteen point one million last year. Also
breaks a previous record of eighteen point eight million in
twenty twenty three. They've been planning moreno shows in that

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because people plan to stay home, probably more who decided
last minute not to go in. On top of that,
twelve point nine million employees said they plan to go
to work late today after the big game. This is
why people are talking about making Super Bowl Monday an
annual holiday. So many people are out for the game
and then out the next day. In a survey, fifty

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five percent of Americans said the Monday after Super Bowl
should be a national holiday. But NFL can make this
debate moot by pushing the super Bowl back one week
so lines up with President's Day, which is already a
national holiday. Not that everybody gets it off. Super Bowl
all scheduled set for the next two years, but there's
possibly an eighteenth regular season game which could be added

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in twenty seven to twenty eight season, and if that's
the case, the entire postseason could get pushed back one week.
Nothing is official yet, and the players union says no
one wants to add another game to the season, but
in the end, money talks and a lot of analysts
expect that to happen at some point. So if you
didn't make it to work today, good for you, and
if you did, even better. They came for another episode

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of Deeper in the Den with dangerous Dave light Year.