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Cabbies top the cholesterol league

YOUR job may be your life, but it can also mean your premature death from high cholesterol levels, research has revealed.

Tests on workers ranging from estate agents and lawyers to taxi drivers and teachers, found that hectic schedules leaving little time for proper meals or exercise were leading to higher cholesterol.

Taxi drivers with their seden-tary lifestyles and unhealthy eating habits were found to have the highest cholesterol levels on average - 5.7 millimole per litre of blood (mmol/L).

Almost half of all heart disease deaths are caused by high cholesterol, but campaigners say few people are aware of the link or what they can do to combat it.

Guidelines recommend that cholesterol levels should be 4mmol and under.

But the latest research, involving tests on 500 people, found the majority were well above this.

The study, conducted by Alpro soya, found that hairdressers had the lowest cholesterol at 4mmol, followed by head-hunters (4.3mmol) and builders (4.7).

After taxi drivers, estate agents had the highest cholesterol levels at 5.5mmol, followed by lawyers (5.2mmol) and teachers (5).

Both firemen and dentists had cholesterol levels of 4.8mmol.

Those participants with higher levels blamed their dependence on takeaways and regular drinking for the problem.

Those with more active jobs, such as builders, and people who have to look good, like hairdressers and head-hunters, appeared to benefit from lower cholesterol.

Dietician Tanya Carr said, "The worrying thing is that over half of UK adults don't know what a healthy cholesterol level is and 70% of adults have cholesterol levels higher than ideal."

Eve Knight, of campaign group Cholesterol UK, said even those in jobs that encouraged poor diet and less exercise could make efforts to change their lifestyle.

"Everybody has the ability to try to adapt their lifestyle to be as healthy as possible. If you are eating on the hoof that doesn't mean you can't have a salad.

"You have got to put forethought into your diet so you can plan ahead and not just eat junk food when you're on the go."

To many bacon sarnies and fish and chips washed down with large amounts of COKE

Well as long as it's not a nose full.

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no sh*t sherlock.

sat on your arse for 10 hours followed by bacon butties or full english at 4 in the morning, just before bed time, and then not being able to sleep cos you paid £40K for a plate in an area thats about to delimit...