Healthy While You Work

February 14th, 2010

Healthy While You WorkMaybe you never noticed the pattern of life in the office is very harmful. Eight hours of sitting in a chair in front of the computer, for five or six working days, will bring the risk to your health. Sitting for hours to make eye muscles tense and become stiff neck. Can also accumulate fat in the abdomen, if you can not help myself. You must prevent the bad habits that do not occur continuously.

The first step: limit snacks

If a friend has a snack at work desk, remove yourself from temptation. According to the dentist in the American Dietetic

Association, if necessary, take a shortcut, so you do not often see the food. Rest for a moment, take a deep breath, and remove the desire to eat sweet foods. If you’re hungry, better to take stock of fruit from home. Healthy and filling.

Step two: Enough water needs

Drink lots of water, approximately 10 glasses per day. Make plans for your intentions successfully. Bring a large bottle of mineral water to the office, spent a bottle until lunchtime, then fill up again and finish at 3 pm, and at 5 o’clock in the afternoon spend a third bottle. If necessary, install an alarm on your cell phone to remind you when to drink. Consumption of rich fruit water content, such as oranges, grapes, melons and apples as an alternative water intake.

Step three: do not be lazy motion

Important things you can do to stay healthy and slim is to exercise. No need to think of strenuous sports as in the office. Try to walk at lunch or pick up the stairs from the elevator. Can walk to burn calories, refreshing, and relieve stress.

Step four: do not miss lunch

Do not miss your lunch. Watch your meal, not to eat too much and then just sat in a chair all afternoon, or do not eat too little too until you less nutrition.

Step five: safety at work

According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Tension Neck Syndrome (TNS) or in the neck pain, can occur when the muscles of the neck and shoulders, one position for long. This is usually experienced by workers in charge of receiving the phone all day or typing for hours.

To avoid neck pain in the long term, a professor of ergonomics – the study of human relationships and the machine at Cornell University, suggested that workers should be on duty received a phone call using the speakerphone, or using a shoulder brace when you receive a phone headset.

Step six: set distance with a computer

Tension is a problem due to the eye too long sitting in front of the computer. According to experts from the University of California, this is cause headaches, difficulty focusing, and increase sensitivity to light. If you can not

read the writing on your computer screen from a distance, it is better to enlarge the size of the letters.

Step seven: on vacation

Vacation is very useful to relieve themselves from the bustle, and help fill your energy back. Vacation is also beneficial for reducing stress, especially if you have a conflict with bosses, peers or project you are doing. Stress can also affect health, weakens the immune system and increase the risk of illness.

Step eight: do not delay the task of the office

Do not buy time work, so you need to complete work overlapping. According to the president of Business Psychology Consulting, who tend to finish all the tasks as individuals, are also vulnerable affected his health. Hard workers realized when experiencing high levels of stress, which affects their relationships and moods. Such stress is caused by conditions that are too tired. Fatigue can also affect one’s immune system, sleep disorders and interfere with concentration.

The ninth step: keep the cleanliness of the office facilities

Vigilant with office equipment. Keyboard, mouse and a regular phone you use thousands of nests could be germs. Science Daily, researchers at the 100th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology reported that the virus can survive for hours and hours for days on rough surfaces. Rotavirus that causes diarrhea, usually located on the surface of the receiver. National Consumers League recommends to always clean the office equipment with anti-bacteria cleanser.

Step ten: stretching on the sidelines of work

The most important step to maintaining health in the workplace is self-awareness to rest. Your body has ‘alarm’ if the body fatigue. You work with Selingi stretching or a light massage can prevent stiff muscles.

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