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What Part of Your Health Has the Biggest Impact On Your Quality Of Life
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Article Overview: We all hear debates about the relevance of a healthy work life balance. What we are really calling out for is how we can improve our quality of life both at work and at home.But to address this we first need to understand what actually has the greatest impact to our quality of life. An Australian survey shows that a common ailment that we seldom seek professional help for has the biggest adverse influence on our quality of life...
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What Part of Your Health Has the Biggest Impact On Your Quality Of Life
We all hear debates about the relevance of a healthy work life balance. What we are really calling out for is how we can improve our quality of life both at work and at home.
But to address this we first need to understand what actually has the greatest impact to our quality of life.
In 2002 the South Australian Department of Health surveyed 3012 South Australians to measure their health status and to ascertain what particular areas of health most affect your quality of life. The surveyed measured participants':
-Physical capacity to perform all activities in life
-Physical capacity to perform work or other daily activities
-Amount of bodily pain they experience
-General health
-Amount of energy that they have
-Amount of interference to social activities due to emotional or physical problems
-Problems with work or other activities due to emotional problems
-Mental health
Their findings showed energy levels and fatigue significantly had the single greatest adverse impact on quality of life in comparison to the seven other surveyed factors. In fact, energy and fatigue created a 15 % greater adverse impact on the quality of life than the average of all other aspects of life.
Fatigue is a condition that very few of us seek professional help about it because a lack of energy, by itself, is not fatal. Meanwhile the impact fatigue has on our quality of life goes on unabated. Poor productivity, poor communication, errors of judgment and skill have the capacity to drain profits and bring companies to their knees. Add to that the impact that fatigue has on moods and relationships and you can see that the fabric of families is continually under strain from the scourge of poor energy levels.
What we fail to understand is that the lifestyle factors that cause the vast majority of cases of fatigue, if continued, can go on and contribute to the development of the most common life-threatening conditions such as heart disease, obesity and diabetes.
Unfortunately, when we do try to address our lack of energy by ourselves, we tend not to address the direct causes of the fatigue such as managing emotional stress, trying to fit too much in, lack of exercise, lack of rest and various other aspects of the modern, on-the-go lifestyle. Instead we opt for the over-consumption and abuse and reliance of certain foods and drinks that give us a short-term energy boost. Fast food outlets and supermarket aisles are literally bursting with processed, caffeinated, sugar-laden fast foods and drinks that are high in fat which at best should be consumed as an occasional treat. The soaring obesity and diabetes epidemic in the Western world highlights the sheer magnitude of the abuse and dependence that we have placed on these fatty and sugary fast foods... and now we can see the real cost of it as a society.
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