[GOJPN]

This fails to mention the effect that stress has on the human body. Stress causes weight gain.
Law Enforcement Officers and Firefighters are extremely stressful.
For a firefighter to go from a dead sleep to fully operational ready in 30 seconds stresses a body.
A good portion of both jobs requires hours of waiting for all hell to break loose.
Not conducive to a healthy life.

[Doctor 2Brains]

A good portion of a pig’s job is hiding in the bushes with a radar gun and a doughnut and the opportunity to shoot a dog and talk about being a hero.

[ansel12]

So according to you, firefighters have always been fat, and we just never noticed it 20 and 30 and 50 years ago?

I have never heard a fireman describe their job as stressful, instead they love it, that is why it is so highly sought.

Cops and firemen have all the security of government and unions and total financial security, benefits, respectability, insurance, even authority.

[Marko413]

This fails to mention the effect that stress has on the human body. Stress causes weight gain. Law Enforcement Officers and Firefighters are extremely stressful. For a firefighter to go from a dead sleep to fully operational ready in 30 seconds stresses a body. A good portion of both jobs requires hours of waiting for all hell to break loose. Not conducive to a healthy life.

This was the same thought going through my head. The amount of stress they deal with mentally and physically, it doesn't take much understand why they can have weight problems.

[MrEdd]

Big whoop.
Try being the parent of two teenagers.