Do you find yourself skipping the gym and exercising less due to long hours?<\/p>\n
Uh-oh. You could be shortening your life for the price of a few quid.<\/p>\n
Work stress is making millions of workers neglect key parts of their lives which could affect their health, a survey found.<\/p>\n
It found 40 per cent of people felt their job has had a negative impact on their health in the last five years.<\/p>\n
The survey found that 43 per cent of people said their job had caused them to exercise less<\/strong>.<\/p>\n More than half said their jobs had led them to eat more<\/strong>.<\/p>\n A quarter said their jobs had led them to drink more booze<\/strong>.<\/p>\n One in ten said their jobs led them to smoke more<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Around 60 per cent of employees regularly do unpaid overtime<\/strong>. Two in ten work more than five hours unpaid per week.<\/p>\n The survey, by the British Heart Foundation, found that employees feared that long hours, smoking, drinking, over-eating and lack of exercise led employees to fear for their health.<\/p>\n 29%\u00a0thought the effects of their work\u00a0could lead to high blood pressure and 21 per cent fearing a heart attack or heart condition.<\/p>\n Lisa Young, from the British Heart Foundation said: \u2018This survey is a stark reminder of just what happens when we don\u2019t take our health at work seriously enough.<\/p>\n \u2018Millions of people say they are smoking more, exercising less and putting on weight because they\u2019re not considering the impact their job is having on their health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n \u2018Behaviours like these can be extremely damaging, not just to your heart health but also to businesses.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: Metro UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you find yourself skipping the gym and exercising less due to long hours? Uh-oh. You could be shortening your life for the price of a few quid. Work stress is making millions of workers neglect key parts of their lives which could affect their health, a survey found. It found 40 per cent of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-91535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}