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www.AbbysHealthFood.com - Issue 36 | Page 27 WE FIND AND SOLVE INDOOR AIR QUALITY PROBLEMS Della Powell Certified Advanced Indoor Assessor Florida MRSA license #2285 NORMI Certified, CMA, CEE, CAIA www.IndoorEnviro.Solutions 813-785-6634 MOLD AND CHEMICAL TESTING Experts don't agree on whether all workaholics, or workers who put in long hours, are cut from the same cloth. They debate: Is it the long work hours or the mentality of the workers that affects health? Some say those who work long hours by choice because they are "engaged" in work but not compulsive may escape the health consequences. And some people, of course, must work long hours just to make ends meet. DID YOU KNOW? Americans who work full me log an average of 47 hours a week, but according to global sta s cs from the Organiza on for Economic Coopera on and Development, the average U.S. worker puts in 34.2 hours per week. Mexicans have the highest average workweek with 43 hours. Workaholic 'Types': Are Some Healthy? The health effects of working long hours depend on the type of worker you are, says Lieke ten Brummelhuis, PhD, assistant professor of management at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Bri sh Columbia. She led a study, tracking 763 Dutch workers to see if she found a rela onship between long work hours and things that can cause metabolic syndrome (a cluster of symptoms including high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, and other problems). Metabolic syndrome makes heart disease and diabetes more likely. She found it was not a simple ma er of hours. The people she terms "engaged," who liked their job and perhaps worked long hours but were not constantly worrying about it, didn't have the symptoms she tracked. "It was not really the behavior, it was the work mentality, the constant rumina on about work" that had a bad effect on health, she says. So who's who? An engaged workaholic may put in 12 hours, close their laptop, and go do something else, she says. A compulsive workaholic will put in the same 12 hours but remain anxious about some of the tasks or decisions a er work hours are over.