HEALTH BENEFITS OF WORK

Health Benefits of Islamic Intermittent Fasting

Background & Objective:  Islamic fasting is observed by millions of Muslims across the world during the holy month of Ramadan and other specific  days of the lunar year. Fasting  Muslims  abstain from eating and drinking from dawn until sunset. Depending on season and geographical location, Muslims  maintain fasting for approximately 13-18 hours per day. The present study aimed to review the be...

The health and cost benefits of work site health-promotion programs.

We review the state of the art in work site health promotion (WHP), focusing on factors that influence the health and productivity of workers. We begin by defining WHP, then review the literature that addresses the business rationale for it, as well as the objections and barriers that may prevent sufficient investment in WHP. Despite methodological limitations in many available studies, the res...

Reduced work hours: who benefits?

Many countries in the Western hemisphere now impose limitations on hours of work on medical staff. In the United States, a change resulted from the investigations that followed the death of Libby Zion in 1984, an 18-year-old daughter of an attorney and journalist in a New York hospital.3 Although an investigating committee found no doctor directly liable, they thought that resident’s deprivatio...

Health benefits of yoga

Health benefits of tennis.

The aim of the study was to explore the role of tennis in the promotion of health and prevention of disease. The focus was on risk factors and diseases related to a sedentary lifestyle, including low fitness levels, obesity, hyperlipidaemia, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, and osteoporosis. A literature search was undertaken to retrieve relevant articles. Structured com...