by John Neeb

Created on: September 16, 2009

Health Tips for the Modern Employee A Guide to Staying Healthy While Gainfully Employed

The American lifestyle is hectic, on-the-go, and completely packed with obligations and responsibilities. Modern mothers bounce from full-time jobs to picking up the kids and chauffeuring them around town. The children need to be at soccer practices and Boy Scout meetings and choir rehearsals. Fathers endure an ever-expanding workweek to pay rent or mortgage and keep food on the table, but still attend little league baseball games and band concerts. For single parents, all the parenting roles are handed to just one adult. We work seemingly around the clock, so exactly how is one supposed to maintain a healthy lifestyle?

Well, when life is moving at the speed of light like that, it's time to think outside the box. If you are at work from eight in the morning until five at night, you have opportunities to help maintain or improve your health, but you need to take some simple steps.

A Full Night's Sleep

The first step for becoming a healthy employee actually starts at home, but is completely priceless with regard to how you feel and how you perform at work. This tip is actually rather easy, yet, with alarming frequency, it isn't followed. To put it plain and simple, make sure you get seven to eight hours of sleep a night. Your body needs the rest, especially after the grueling schedules everyone seems to be keeping nowadays. Anything less than seven hours of sleep and there is a direct impact on how you perform at work. The human body is not designed to be a twenty-four hour dynamo, so if you don't treat it like one, you will begin to reap immediate benefits.

Healthy snacking

Another simple step to improve your health during the workday is to engage in healthy snacking. The old adage used to be "three square meals a day," but that is starting to fall by the wayside. Your new goal should be to have six or seven meals spread out evenly (within reason) throughout the day. Now, we aren't talking steak-and-potatoes for all those meals. Begin your day with a healthy breakfast of your choosing and then have a ten o'clock snack. Something along the lines of cheese, yogurt, and maybe a piece of fruit would go a long way to helping. Enjoy a healthy lunch like turkey on whole wheat with mustard and a side of grape tomatoes. At three o'clock, take another snack break. Almonds and dried fruit mixed together tastes great and will give you some protein and antioxidants, too.

Drink Water

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