Why the Frequent Flyer is at Risk of Acquiring Chronic Diseases and Health Conditions
As the subject of wellness and chronic disease conditions is being discussed at home, work, healthcare institutions and wellness centers, still many people are faced with challenges of gaining complete body transformation. Lifestyle and career continue to pose challenges to the wellbeing of people. The business traveller is one impacted subjects who have to live with the demands of their jobs while at the same time seeking for physical, mental and environmental wellness.
A report public in April 2011, by the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, depicted that people who are travelling extensively for business have increased health risk factors and high rates of poor health including obesity and hypertension. Perhaps, it could be said that the aspect of chronic health conditions and frequent travelling could have a collaborative and correlative relationship.
What this means is that recent studies suggest that individuals who travel extensively for work are facing increased health risks of suffering chronic disease conditions and therefore, they need to be encouraged to monitor their health. The link between business, obesity, chronic disease such as cardiovascular disease, muscle traumas and tissue and joint pains could be creating a limelight for workplace health monitoring interventions.
Wellness assessment is something that the business trip maker needs to embrace as what seems to be a quest to meet to work and business expectations could be crossing the boundaries of living a healthy life and exposing the same traveller to chronic disease conditions.
Frequent travellers and especially business travellers have recorded a peculiar behaviour where they spend too much of their time in high-end communications with their smartphones, and laptops, throughout their flights allowing themselves to get committed to work-related aspects at the expense of their mental wellbeing.
The body needs to rest and rejuvenate. This enables it to build up energy reserves and recreate the mind and soul so that an individual can concentrate in the next day’s undertaking. Whereas technology has meant it easier to travel and get a job done, on the other hand, it has crossed the health and stress-management levels something that could contribute to development of chronic disease conditions.
Since now people can do assignments remotely, the big question that is left unanswered is could this be adversely affecting their healthy? Certainly yes! Business travellers need to understand that there are healthy boundaries that need to be checked. In most parts of a traveller’s journey, they are seated for long hours. The body is not able to burn calories and the likelihood is that a body weight increases. This brings about cardiovascular complications.
The same traveller is seen remotely working throughout his journey depriving himself essential rest and sleep that could lead to slow crippling of chronic disease conditions. Sleep is very useful since it allows a person to rest, drain off stress, and calm down the tired body and mind.
Although there is happiness and pride of accomplishing every business assignment, on the other hand, a time-bomb is slowly ticking and soon or later the very successful business executive will be faced with chronic ill-healthy.
According to a study carried out at Columbia University workers, which involved about 13,000 workers of this number of employees, those who engage in routine travel for more than two weeks in a month, showed a higher rate of becoming obese, attaining a high body mass or recorded a poor self-rated health score.
There is a need for health and wellness practitioners including psychotherapist, chiropractors, dieticians, and fitness instructors to engage the business traveller, employer, and employees who are constantly involved in business or work-related frequent travel in order to assess the health and wellness impacts, which they could be facing from their frequent travelling. This is because that kind of lifestyle could be creating a situation where they are likely to suffer from chronic diseases.
Employees involved in frequent travel need to be encouraged to seek for physical, mental, environmental and psychological wellbeing in order to stay health and avoid suffering from chronic disease conditions.
In order to help bring out the issues that are affecting business travellers, health and wellness practitioners and professionals need to engage actively and in dialogue to find more about the nature of the business travelling and what kind of health challenges are facing the workers. This will help in establishing the effects that frequent travelling worker could be experiencing.
A report public in April 2011, by the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, depicted that people who are travelling extensively for business have increased health risk factors and high rates of poor health including obesity and hypertension. Perhaps, it could be said that the aspect of chronic health conditions and frequent travelling could have a collaborative and correlative relationship.
What this means is that recent studies suggest that individuals who travel extensively for work are facing increased health risks of suffering chronic disease conditions and therefore, they need to be encouraged to monitor their health. The link between business, obesity, chronic disease such as cardiovascular disease, muscle traumas and tissue and joint pains could be creating a limelight for workplace health monitoring interventions.
Wellness assessment is something that the business trip maker needs to embrace as what seems to be a quest to meet to work and business expectations could be crossing the boundaries of living a healthy life and exposing the same traveller to chronic disease conditions.
Frequent travellers and especially business travellers have recorded a peculiar behaviour where they spend too much of their time in high-end communications with their smartphones, and laptops, throughout their flights allowing themselves to get committed to work-related aspects at the expense of their mental wellbeing.
The body needs to rest and rejuvenate. This enables it to build up energy reserves and recreate the mind and soul so that an individual can concentrate in the next day’s undertaking. Whereas technology has meant it easier to travel and get a job done, on the other hand, it has crossed the health and stress-management levels something that could contribute to development of chronic disease conditions.
Since now people can do assignments remotely, the big question that is left unanswered is could this be adversely affecting their healthy? Certainly yes! Business travellers need to understand that there are healthy boundaries that need to be checked. In most parts of a traveller’s journey, they are seated for long hours. The body is not able to burn calories and the likelihood is that a body weight increases. This brings about cardiovascular complications.
The same traveller is seen remotely working throughout his journey depriving himself essential rest and sleep that could lead to slow crippling of chronic disease conditions. Sleep is very useful since it allows a person to rest, drain off stress, and calm down the tired body and mind.
Although there is happiness and pride of accomplishing every business assignment, on the other hand, a time-bomb is slowly ticking and soon or later the very successful business executive will be faced with chronic ill-healthy.
According to a study carried out at Columbia University workers, which involved about 13,000 workers of this number of employees, those who engage in routine travel for more than two weeks in a month, showed a higher rate of becoming obese, attaining a high body mass or recorded a poor self-rated health score.
There is a need for health and wellness practitioners including psychotherapist, chiropractors, dieticians, and fitness instructors to engage the business traveller, employer, and employees who are constantly involved in business or work-related frequent travel in order to assess the health and wellness impacts, which they could be facing from their frequent travelling. This is because that kind of lifestyle could be creating a situation where they are likely to suffer from chronic diseases.
Employees involved in frequent travel need to be encouraged to seek for physical, mental, environmental and psychological wellbeing in order to stay health and avoid suffering from chronic disease conditions.
In order to help bring out the issues that are affecting business travellers, health and wellness practitioners and professionals need to engage actively and in dialogue to find more about the nature of the business travelling and what kind of health challenges are facing the workers. This will help in establishing the effects that frequent travelling worker could be experiencing.
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