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Fit for business, Don’t allow your working life to take over – your Unfortunately, the body does a poor job of discriminating between
fit for life: Regain health is the best investment you can make. grave, imminent dangers, and less momentous, ongoing sources
y our work/life of stress, such as financial difficulties and job strain. When the
balance There is so much pressure on us to be able to juggle multiple fight-or-flight response is chronically in the “on” position, the body
things in our lives and sail through it all, without batting an eyelid. suffers.
Kate Percival
However, the world is changing. We are questioning the pursuit Type A personalities (these are people who are more ambitious,
CEO, Grace Belgravia − London’s leading of money, financial and business success. We know they do not impatient, and have an exaggerated commitment to work) have
Women’s Health & Wellness Entrepeneur necessarily bring happiness or good health. a two-fold increased risk of developing coronary artery disease
compared to those of a more relaxed personality type.
“We have to be very tough on Give up the guilt!
ourselves, to be disciplined, to give Arianna Huffington pointed out in her book Thrive that women
ourselves ‘me time’.” I tell women every day to take some “me time”. It’s the wrong in highly stressful jobs had a 40 per cent increased risk of heart
attitude to see spending an hour on yourself as pampering. disease and heart attacks.
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Share with your contacts via Procurious! Exercise is linked to lower rates of cancer. It even helps in treating Stress also makes it harder to practice heart-healthy habits, such as
depression. Emerging studies show that exercising three times exercise, a good diet, not smoking, and adequate sleep.
a week in your older years can cut the risk of Alzheimers by as
much as 40 per cent. Creating healthy habits
For me, the big game-changers are all within our control. So So what can you do to make sure you foster good habits, and take
many women say to me that they don’t have the time. We do – care of your health?
we just have to be as determined about making it happen. Let’s
look at some hard facts: • F oster mutually supportive relationships with friends, family, and
co-workers.
• If you are getting less than 6 hours sleep a night, you increase
your chances of a heart attack by 60 per cent. • Limit intrusions on your life outside of work.
• P ut down your Kindles, iPads, iPhones, TVs – they all use blue • Practice relaxation techniques, such as meditation.
light that messes with our circadian rhythms and eyesight.
• Eat healthily.
We have to be very tough on ourselves, to be disciplined to give
ourselves “me time”. • Do things that make you laugh or smile.
Fight or flight • Affirmations (they work!) – be positive, enjoy life and live a happy
healthy one.
The body is programmed to react to life-threatening stress
with a “fight-or-flight” response. In this state, the brain triggers Try to bring back your work-life balance. Remember, we can have it
a cascade of chemicals and hormones that speed the heart all. We just can’t have it all of the time!
rate, quicken breathing, increase blood pressure, and boost the
amount of energy (sugar) supplied to muscles.
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