Breaks directly affect our life span

According to the results of a 40-year-old scientific study, taking regular holidays can extend your life expectancy.
Males who took three weeks or fewer vacations had 37% more chances of dying than those who had taken more than three weeks off.

Failure to get rid of the office's daily stress robs us of the ability to eat and exercise.
According to recent findings, those who do not take vacation regularly tend to work longer and to get less sleep, which affects their health.

In Great Britain, people who work five days a week have the right to take 28 days of paid vacation a year. This is equivalent to 5.6 weeks off. France is more generous in this regard, where full - time workers have the right to take 30 days off paid a year.

The United States of America is the only developing country that does not guarantee its employees paid holidays. Most companies, however, offer full - time employees about 10 days of a year's paid vacation.
Research of Helsinki University examined the lives of 1222 middle - aged leaders from 1919 to 1934. They were recruited for scientific research between 1974-1975 and were surveyed for the next 40 years. Participants had at least one risk to cardiovascular diseases like smoking, hypertension, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, or intolerance to glucose.

Half the participants underwent a health programme, the other half did not receive rigorous instructions about the state of physical form.
Members of the financial group received oral advice and written down every four months to engage in physical activity, eat wholesomely, reach optimial weight, and quit smoking.
When health advice was not enough, the directors attending the study also took prescribed drugs at the time to reduce blood pressure and lipids. University of Helsinki scientists found that the risk of cardiac disease had been reduced by 46% among males involved in the health program, compared with those involved in the control group.
Four decades after the study was launched, researchers compared this data to national death records and analyzed previous unregistered information such as working hours, sleep, rest days. This showed that the mortality rate in the group participating in the health program was constantly higher by 2004. After that date, the mortality rate fell equally between the two groups, between 2004 and 2014.

Scientists found that these surprising results were shorter vacations.
"Don't think another healthy life style can compensate for working long hours and not take the necessary vacation days” " said Professor Timo Strandberg of Helsinki University in Finland. “Expulsions can be a good way to remove stress”.

Scientists examined only the positive benefits of holiday health and not if individuals traveled to a remote land for their holidays. They found that the shorter holidays were linked to a higher mortality rate in the group of people who submitted to the health program (healthily feeding, exercise, and life - style advice).
In the intervention group, men who took three weeks off or less during the year had 37% chance of dying between 1974 / 2004, compared with what they had taken more than three weeks off. However, vacations had no effect on the risk of dying in the control group, writes “Daily mail”.

Professor Strandberg stated the “Dations caused by intensive life - style are focused on a group of people who took shorter holidays. In our study, men who took fewer holiday days have worked less and less sleep than those who took long vacations. This stressful life - style may have overlooked any benefit of this program.
“We think that intervention may have had a negative psychological effect on this men, adding stress to their life” professor said.

Professor Stranberg observed that stress management was not part of preventive medicine in the 1970 ' s, but today it consults individuals with, or at risk, cardiovascular diseases.
Among other things, more effective drugs are available today to reduce lipids and blood pressure.
Researchers say reducing stress is an important part of programs to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Councils on life - style should combine with modern medical treatment to prevent cardiovascular diseases in high - risk individuals.