READ THIS:Exercise Helps Cope With Stress At Work.

                         

Unfortunately, for many of us, crazy demands by our bosses or colleagues often result in reaching for a takeaway or perhaps drowning our sorrows in the pub.

But if the demands of your job are getting you down, it might be wise to go for a jog, swim or visit the gym, researchers now suggest.
This is because being fit helps you cope when work gets stressful, a new study has found.

The study by the University of Basel together with Swedish researchers studied 200 employees – 51 per cent men, 49 per cent women with an average age of 39. They tested their fitness on an exercise bike and measured various risk factors for heart and blood vessel disease including blood pressure, body mass index, cholesterol, triglycerides – a form of fat – and glycated haemoglobin. Having high triglycerides can be a sign of diabetes, as can high levels of glycated haemoglobin.

The authors found stressed individuals had higher levels of most of the risk factors for heart and circulatory system disease.The researchers found the perception of stress and risk of heart disease is affected by fitness.

Stressed employees with a high fitness level had much lower levels of the factors for heart disease than the medium fit or the low.
Being fit may do wonders for one’s waistline, and energy levels, but scientists found it is when the going gets tough at work that being fit really comes into its own. Levels of ‘bad cholesterol’ and other indicators that can signal a greater risk of a heart attack or stroke were found to spike in people with low fitness – but stay at lower, safer levels in those who stay trim.

Researchers at Basel University and Gothernburg Hospital in Sweden studied how stressed a group of employees felt at work. They tested fitness levels of 200 workers on an exercise bike.

While the fit and unfit people may have been equally stressed, the unfit people produced higher levels of ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol in their blood during the difficult times. When stress levels were low, there were far smaller differences observed between people with high and low fitness levels.

The study by the University of Basel together with Swedish researchers studied 200 employees – 51 per cent men, 49 per cent women with an average age of 39.

They tested their fitness on an exercise bike and measured various risk factors for heart and blood vessel disease including blood pressure, body mass index, cholesterol, triglycerides – a form of fat – and glycated haemoglobin.

Having high triglycerides can be a sign of diabetes, as can high levels of glycated haemoglobin. Stressed individuals had higher levels of most of the risk factors for heart and circulatory system disease, the authors found.

The research showed that the perception of stress and risk of heart disease is affected by fitness.Stressed employees with a high fitness level had much lower levels of the factors for heart disease than the medium fit or the low.