Stressed Out On the Job? You Could Be At Risk for Diabetes, Study Says

If you have "job burnout" but are apparently healthy, you're still at risk for getting type 2 diabetes, researchers from Tel Aviv University discovered.

In other words, if you're stressed out, emotionally exhausted, physically fatigued and experience "cognitivie wearniness," you better start taking better care of yourself.

"It has been suggested that stress plays a significant role in the (development) of type 2 diabetes," Dr Samuel Melamed from Tel Aviv University told Reuters Health. Dr. Melamed is lead author of a study, which appears in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.

"Emotional burnout may pose risk to health. Earlier studies have found it to be associated with cardiovascular disease risk, sleep disturbances, impaired fertility and musculoskeletal pain," the researcher continued.

"The general public should be aware that emotional burnout, in addition to its impairing quality of life, may also constitute risk to health," Dr. Melamed contends.

Well, this groundbreaking study certainly stresses how vitally important it is for our health to put into action stress management techniques such as meditating, exercising, getting ample sleep, losing weight (if necessary), and becoming assertive, when necessary, to prevent that job burnout -- or at least curtail it before it becomes excessive.

Hmm. This cutting-edge resaerch sure does nudge me to become more diligent about getting enough sleep and meditating again daily, as I used to do a couple of years ago.

Thanks to the American Diabetes Association, which alerted me to this Reuters Health story about this new research study.

Comments

[Tom Bunnell]

Connie, I discovered something I think you and your web people have overlooked. I wanted to go to your blog this morning and I misplaced your link so I just went to google and typed in kick sugar blog-up came a bunch of your links and I clicked on one, it was the interview on the 19th, I thought, gee is this the last time she has posted on her blog, the interview was very interesting and after I read it I went to looking for the "home" link to be sure I was on the home page and not another, there was no home link or anything that indicated how to get to the beginning or square one. Finally I just tried clicking on the big blue stripes and TM that say Sugar Shock Blog and it took me to your home page and I was able to look at your new postings. I think your losing a lot of traffic because people can't find your home page or the beginning when they google and come across your articles and previous blog entries. Tom

[Online Candy Store Owner]

My dad has type 1 diabetes, and most of my parents family on both sides has signs of diabetes or full blown diabetes. I think I'm definitely going to get it one day... to stay ahead, I usually just try to eat better and excercise daily. Thanks for the info, keep it up.