Just about every Monday, I have a blog posted at Health123.com. I love the work I do for this local health and wellness start-up, and I believe in the company. It not only works with companies to help their employees manage their health, but it offers great tools to help individuals keep track of how they are doing. I know. I use it. I watched my metrics improve over a 70 pound weight loss.
This week, I blogged about something that I know a lot of us find difficult to accomplish: finding the time and money to take a break.
Here’s the start of that piece. Follow the link to see the rest. And then, if you want, tool around Health123’s website to see what you think. It really is an amazing place where you can learn that taking control of your health doesn’t take a huge effort, but can be done in little steps.
America is one of the few countries without government mandated paid vacation, something often decried. Yet according to CNN even when there is paid vacation available – about three in four employed people enjoy some form of paid time off – more than half don’t take advantage of all the days available to them. There are ample reasons – many proved by science – to take time to recharge. This Health.com article goes through some of the main ones, like promoting heart health, getting closer to your family, and reducing stress. It links to studies that back them up. Consider, too, this study that shows vacation helps people recuperate, with quality of sleep and feelings of wellbeing continuing even after you come home from whatever paradise you were visiting. And this study shows that unrelenting job strain can cause masked hypertension….
