What is your job doing to you?

Two recent studies looked at the effect of how your job affects your health. One focused on what effect long working hours had on the health of men and women. They found that long working hours impacted women more than men. Women tend to not exercise, snack on high fat, high calorie foods, and eat a more unhealthy diet in general. This was not the case with men.

The other study looked at what constant stress at work did to the health of men and women. They found that stressful working conditions resulted in more increases in blood pressure in men than women.

Listen to Margie as she talks about what these two studies may tell us, when we put them together, and hear a couple of tips on how to avoid falling into these traps that may be impacting your health.

Links of interest regarding work stress:
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/stress/
http://www.statcan.ca/english/studies/82-003/archive/1998/hrar1998010003s0a04.pdf
http://stress.about.com/od/stressbasics/

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