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Blog Overview Blogger Profiles Event Calendar You can also visit our other sites: EmployeeWellness.ca WellnessFair.ca Workplace Wellness Info on NaturalHealthcare.ca	\| Share: \| more Why Your Job Could Be Making You Old: Research indicates that stressful careers could contribute to aging The toll workplace stress takes on your body, biologically. Workplace stress obviously affects your emotional wellbeing, but it can also play a role in aging. Physicians have found that people with stressful jobs develop more health problems, especially if there are severe consequences for mistakes. Chronological age and biological age are different, biological age measures how your body is aging and can be changed by lifestyle habits. Stress works indirectly by promoting smoking, obesity, and an increased sedentary lifestyle. Telomeres (protective caps on the ends of chromosomes) gradually shorten over time as cells divide. Much like the plastic coating on the ends of shoe laces, telomeres can wear down and fray. Chronic stress can speed up this cellular aging process. It was found in a study that women who were care givers for children with a chronic illness usually had shorter white blood cell telomeres than women of the same age with healthy children. However, women with healthy children who reported high amounts of stress had shorter telomeres. It is important to spend some time relaxing each day. As well, people should maintain family relationships and friendships outside their job, this is a good way to relieve stress from your job. Getting enough sleep, exercising, eating healthy foods, and taking mental breaks can help produce an enzyme that prevents telomere shortening. Try to deal with the source of the stressor, which is usually your job. Read more here Posted by: suhujitha on 2009-02-11 11:43:42 Subscribe to the feed Direct Link to this post Next post: Dopamine impacts your willingness to work 2012-05-12 10:04:13 Other posts tagged workplace stress, stress, aging, relaxation, mind-body: · [Jealousy and envy at work are different in men and women] · [Taking a vacation from email decrease stress, increase concentration] · [The psychological risks of health staff working at the ICU and strategies to prevent them] · [Many employee assistance programs lack a comprehensive approach to addressing intimate partner violence] · [Health Tip: Peripheral Vision] · [Emergency dispatchers suffer from symptoms of PTSD, study reveals] · [Study finds those who feel they must stick with employer become more emotionally exhausted] · [Benefits of taking Fido to work may not be far-fetched] · [Mental health workers: the overlooked victims of 9/11] · [Fear of losing job causes dissatisfaction and lack of commitment] · [Study of employee substance use shows the need for supervisor training] Don't forget: there is a search box on every page! Recent Posts: Dopamine impacts your willingness to work People who are willing to work hard for rewards had higher release of the neurotransmitter dopamine in areas of the brain known to play an important role in reward and motivation Posted by: danica on 2012-05-12 10:04:13 Co-workers can be as important as supervisors for effective student internships How internships are high-impact educational practices that can lead to higher levels of learning than those practices found in traditional classroom settings Posted by: danica on 2012-05-11 10:59:49 Comparing suffering may stop people seeking help for depression and anxiety People make inaccurate judgements about their depression and anxiety symptoms based on their perception of the suffering of those around them Posted by: danica on 2012-05-09 11:17:17 Long commutes may be hazardous to health Greater commuting distances are associated with decreased cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), increased weight, and other indicators of metabolic risk Posted by: danica on 2012-05-09 09:02:31 National U.K. handwashing campaign improved hygiene and reduced infection The more UK hospitals purchased soap and alcohol handrub, the more levels of MRSA and C. difficile went down Posted by: danica on 2012-05-07 09:05:37 View Your Cart? Call us for more information: In Toronto and Area call 647.723.6381 or call 1.866.395.8904 Toll-free. Dial answer group (ext) 3. \| Share: \| more Check out our Amazon Reading List!	New! Wellergize brings the power of Permacharts to your organization. Click here to see our selection. Wellergize Latest Tweet: Hmm. Twitter appears to be pining for the fjords at the moment. Who has used Wellergize Products and Services? The RCMP, for one. Ask us how we can help your organization.
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