Today's Theme: WORK/JOB & ALL THOSE RELATED..

Was about to sign-in my email, i came across which i considered a very useful article, so i make it as an entry to my page instead of talking about LOVE, dis time, lets put health at first place as sometimes we often neglect about ourselves. So lets take a closer look at this post..

By Ben Hirschler - Tue May 11, 10:16 AM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - People working 10 or 11 hours a day are more likely to suffer serious heart problems, including heart attacks, than those clocking off after seven hours, researchers said on Tuesday.

The finding, from an 11-year study of 6,000 British civil servants, does not provide definitive proof that long hours cause coronary heart disease but it does show a clear link, which experts said may be due to stress.

In all, there were 369 cases of death due to heart disease, non-fatal heart attacks and angina among the London-based study group -- and the risk of having an adverse event was 60 percent higher for those who worked three to four hours overtime.

Working an extra one to two hours beyond a normal seven-hour day was not associated with increased risk.

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"It seems there might a threshold, so it is not so bad if you work another hour or so more than usual," said Dr Marianna Virtanen, an epidemiologist at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and University College London.

The higher incidence of heart problems among those working overtime was independent of a range of other risk factors including smoking, being overweight or having high cholesterol.

But Virtanen said it was possible the lifestyle of people working long hours deteriorated over time, for example as a result of poor diet or increased alcohol consumption.

More fundamentally, long hours may be associated with work-related stress, which interferes with metabolic processes, as well as "sickness presenteeism," whereby employees continue working when they are ill.

Virtanen and colleagues published their findings in the European Heart Journal.

Commenting on the study, Gordon McInnes, professor of clinical pharmacology at the University of Glasgow's Western Infirmary, said the findings could have widespread implications for doctors assessing patients' heart risks.

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"If the effect is truly causal, the importance is much greater than commonly recognized. Overtime-induced work stress might contribute to a substantial proportion of cardiovascular disease," he said.

(Editing by Charles Dick)

..so dun forget to take a leave to spend time with family & ur love ones..but upon submitting ur leave form, please be prepared to hear all these from ur boss:

Want a day off work?

So you want a day off??

Let's take a look at what you are asking for. 

There are 365 days per year available for work. 

There are 52 weeks per year in which you already have 2 days off per week, leaving 261 days available for work.

Since you spend 16 hours each day away fron work, you have used up 170 days, leaving only 91 days available. 

You spend 30 minutes each day on coffee break which counts for 23 days each year, leaving only 68 days available. 

With a 1 hour lunch each day, you used up another 46 days, leaving only 22 days available for work. 

You normally spend 2 days per year on sick leave. 

This leaves you only 20 days per year available for work. 

We are off 5 holidays per year, so your available working time is down to 15 days. 

We generously give 14 days vacation per year which leaves only 1 day available for work and 

I'll be darned if you are going to take that day off! 

now get back to WORK!!! 

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