Why are we always in a rush

Lower status jobs, increased workloads and lack of self-control at work have been directly associated with unhealthy diets. However, the ways in which work is connected with unhealthy dieting is largely unknown. Work, like other social roles, influences physical health and health behaviors, such as food choices, through providing or limiting access to economic, social and health resources, health risks, health attitudes, and health promotion opportunities. Younger workers and those with lower levels of education and income report less healthful food choices than older and better-educated workers. Likewise, while both men and women experience strain during the workday, women continue to experience strain after working hours even after adjusting for work and home characteristics and interactions between them.  But why? Everywhere else in the world, people take hours off of work to go home and eat lunch with their families. Why is it that in American culture, we feel the need to eat as quickly as possible at our desks in order to get right back to work? The culture of fast food has capitalized on this rushed mentality and catered to having food available 24/7 with no wait. However, this food is rarely nutritious and largely responsible for the obesity epidemic in this country.