Is your job making you fat?

Those in the caring profession more prone to problem

When Jane Thom-as came to see me she was tipping the scales at 17 1/2 st. A healthy weight as a child and teenager, it was only when she began teaching 15 years ago that the pounds piled on. In part, it was down to the biscuit barrel in the staff room - but it also went deeper.

As Jane got promoted and took on more responsibility, eventually becoming deputy head of a secondary school, her own needs got pushed further down the list, and at the end of a long day she had got into the habit of going home and comfort eating. And she's not the only one.