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After Hours HEALTH


STRESS- BUSTING TIP OF THE MONTH


Ease up on email


CHECKING YOUR INBOX less frequently reduces stress, University of British Columbia researchers find. In a study of 124 adults, including students, financial analysts and medical professionals, those limited to checking email thrice daily for a week felt less stress than those allowed to check as often as they could. “People find it difficult to resist the temptation of checking email, yet resisting this temptation reduces their stress,” says Kostadin Kushlev, the study’s lead author. — Tamar Satov


How I Find Balance


Rana Abdulla, 52, auditor, Canadian Grain Commission, and human rights activist, Winnipeg IT REALLY HIT ME TO SLOW DOWN when one day Yafa [the youngest of my four daughters] urged me to buy her shoes two sizes bigger. As her mother, I should have known that, but I had lost track. I reflected on my goals in the different areas of my life, and then I actively developed the skills I would need to get balance. I started setting boundaries on my time. Now, I take Friday nights off work: I spend them with the family. My daughters


help me with housework, cooking and technology. I have figured out a way to deal with my career, parenting and my other


interests. It took some time, and I don’t claim that I feel successful every day, but I found a way to balance it all. I love to garden and grow flowers, I paint and I write — those activities relieve stress and give me time to reflect and think. [Work-life balance] has to be anchored in a firm personal philosophy about something: for me, that something is human rights. I have served as an advocate with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and in my support of refugees, I have been through everything from bureaucratic approvals to assisting families in settling in their new communities. I won’t ever say “I’m not available” when there’s a call to action on human rights. If it weren’t for the idealistic and creative aspects of my life, I don’t believe


I could have survived as an accountant. And if it weren’t for the discipline and structure of my profession as a CGA, I would probably have burnt out by now. I need both. — As told to Dexter Brown


48 | CPA MAGAZINE | APRIL 2015 Job strain linked to diabetes


WORKERS IN HIGH-STRESS POSITIONS with little job control or decision-making responsibilities are at greater risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, even if they have no other risk factors, according to a German study. More than 5,000 men and women, none of whom originally had diabetes, participated in the 12-year study. Those who had heavy job demands combined with low control over their work were at a 45% higher risk of develop- ing diabetes by the end of the study than those with low job strain, even once traditional risk factors such as age, gender, family history and weight were accounted for.— TS


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