Stress and lack of exercise: A fatal combination that is part of everyday life in many offices. But there are ways and means to keep you healthy.
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Bad habits can be extremely detrimental to health. In the stressful everyday office life, they often creep in unnoticed. But you can take effective countermeasures.
Stress, lack of exercise and greasy food in the canteen: there are a number of health risks lurking in the office. Anyone who occasionally devours sweets in the afternoon and almost doesn’t leave their office chair for a day doesn’t need to worry: the amount makes the poison. Everyone can have a lazy and gluttonous day. But when unhealthy rituals become the norm, you damage your own health.
A lack of exercise not only promotes tension and digestive problems. Too much sitting is also considered a high risk factor for cancer. In addition, the heart and circulation suffer if you do not keep fit through exercise and eat a balanced diet, the risk of heart attack and stroke increases. Obesity and thus the development of diabetes is also promoted by the combination of “lack of exercise and unhealthy nutrition”.
Good stress management is just as important as exercise
You have an office job and the canteen in the house drives you to obesity sooner or later? It doesn’t have to come to that. A few simple routines in everyday life promote your health and prevent diseases such as high blood pressure – the main risk factor for heart attacks. You can find out which rituals have a life-prolonging effect and are easy to implement in everyday life at 24vita.de.
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