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Sandy Almendarez entered the natural products industry in 2009 when she joined VIRGO as an assistant editor. Since then, she's worked her way up to editor of INSIDER where she writes, edits and manages content for manufacturers and marketers of natural products. In "Sandy's Insights," she explores how companies actions, regulatory rulings and media reports affect the dietary supplement, fortified foods and personal care markets. |
Making the Heart Work Overtime
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Cardiovascular Disease (CVD),
Heart Health,
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Running a natural products store is not for the weak. Retailers have to stay abreast of current health studies, product expiration dates, employee schedules and shopper demands, not to mention a slew of other unexpected challenges that arise throughout the day.
With all that’s going on at the store, retailers may just want to put up a cot in the back room and store a clean shirt in the desk; it seems too difficult to leave.
However, I beseech you to not to work those 60-hour weeks. It may just kill you, and hard-working natural-product advocates are too few in numbers as it is.
In a study published in The European Heart Journal last week, researchers found overtime work is related to increased risk of incident coronary heart disease (CHD) independently of conventional risk factors (Eur Heart J. 2010 May 11). Basically, they are saying working too much is bad for the heart.
The Researchers studied 6,014 British civil servants (4,262 men and 1,752 women), aged 39 to 61 years who were free from CHD and worked full time at baseline (from 1991 to 1994). They followed the group of workers for an average of 11 years.
They found three to four hours of overtime work per day was associated with 1.6-fold increased risk of incident CHD compared with employees with no overtime work.
Keep your heart, customers and families healthy: don’t work too much.
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