If the notion of better gym rates isn’t enough to get you to exercise regularly, how about if your bank were to give you better interest rates if you slim down? A bank in Seoul is doing just that, offering better rates if you lose five percent of your body weight in a year, allowing you to squirrel away more money as you shape up.
Leave a Comment February 24, 2011
If there’ve been layoffs at your company, leaving you and the few remaining staff with a heavier workload, keep an eye on your waistline as your skinny jeans may be fitting a bit snugger.
A study conducted by researchers at the University of Rochester School of Medicine found that of employees in an upstate New York company that had been downsized, those with higher job stress (suffering from chronic stress thanks to being saddled with more responsibilities) were fatter than those with less stressful positions (whose short-term stress revolved more around job insecurity).
The researchers speculate that one cause may be that the highly stressed out employees tend to lean towards unhealthy lifestyle habits when they’re so tired and frazzled from work, so for example, they may head home after a long day at the office and just veg out in front of the TV every night instead of getting some exercise in.
Leave a Comment April 6, 2010