Recreations - Health & Well-Being Through Leisure And Vacations

Health and Well-Being can be enhanced through the effective use of leisure, including holidays, travel, sports, games, and many others form of physical and mental activities. Leisure has been found to contribute to overall well-being by helping people maintain both their physical and mental health. It is generally true that travelers feel more rested and relaxed when they return from their vacation and feel more invigorated and recharged.

Taking vacations can improve our health in several ways:

• Physically active leisure, including travel, has been found to directly contribute to higher levels of physical and mental well-being, and also helped people suppress high levels of work and work-related stress.
• An annual vacation can cut a person’s risk of heart attack by 50 percent.
• Blood pressure, heart rate, and level of epinephrine - a stress hormone - decline on holidays of only one or two days.
• Travelers get three times more deep sleep after their vacation and sleep slightly longer after their vacation.
• Generally during vacation, improvement in exhaustion and recuperation are facilitated by the free time for one’s self, exercise during vacation, better sleep and also warmer or sunnier vacation locations.
• Women who take more vacations are more satisfied with their marriages. This may be because travelers feel more romantic on vacations and some make love more often on vacation.
• Spending time away from the office, especially traveling on vacations help to prevent burnout, reduce stress, improve morale,  and improve their job performance and productivity.
• Last but not least, vacation times help improve bonding with family members and loved ones.

For me .. I always feel healthier and much leaner after a great vacation. Talk about weight loss, dieting and staying slim !!

So .. what are you waiting for ??

Plan your vacation with your loved ones and have a great time and return healthier and recharged.

Have Fun !!

(Some of the above content and facts abstracted fm TIA published notes).