After Hours HEALTH
STRESS- BUSTING TIP OF THE MONTH
Sleep well, eat better
FOR MANY OF US, stress at work often leads to an overindulgence of junk food in the evening. But there is a way to buffer those poor dinnertime choices: sleep. Researchers from universities in the US and China charted 235 workers and found that if they slept well the night before, they were more likely to make better food choices if they endured stress the next day. Food is often a way to regulate our bad moods and get momentary energy bursts. Getting a replenishing night’s sleep, however, is the real answer to stressful days. — Martha Beach
How I Find Balance
Dan McGrath, 55, COO, Cineplex Entertainment, Toronto DURING THE WEEK, I’M REALLY FOCUSED ON WORK. The volume of work keeps you focused, not that you have much choice. I have one or two events a week, whether it’s a charity board meeting, work
dinner or some other sort of function. I also travel for work probably a third of the time, mostly within Canada. While most of my week is devoted to work, I have a rule with my wife — I finish
work at 5 p.m. on Friday, and I do my best to be home by 6 p.m. Our Friday-night tradition is to have a Manhattan and share a cheese board. I very rarely work on a Saturday; Saturday is my sacred day. It’s the one day that I will just try to keep clear for family time and relaxation. I generally work every Sunday — at least three out of four weeks — but not the whole day. I usually end up working for a few hours either in the morning or in the evening. My getaway time is spent at the cottage. I go there every weekend in the summer and probably every other weekend in the winter. In the summer, I spend a lot of time with the family boating, water-skiing and taking my kids wakeboarding and wake surfing. In the winter, I’m a snowmobiler. I try to get in a couple of trips in the year. Usually, it’s two — one warm trip with the family during the winter and then usually my wife and I try to get to Europe once in the fall. The other leisure activity I try to do is golf, but I don’t get out nearly as much as I’d like to. — As told to Dexter Brown
60 | CPA MAGAZINE | SEPTEMBER 2017 Get smart: put the cell away
RESEARCHERS AT THE MCCOMBS School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin studied almost 800 smartphone users to measure how they perform without their phones. Participants completed tests that needed full concentration to measure the user’s ability to hold and process information. Participants were told to silence their phones, then instructed at random to put them either in their bag or pocket, or in another room. Those who put their phones in another room outperformed those who kept their phones near them. Just having our phone close by can distract us, weakening our cognitive function. So the next time you have an important
meeting, try leaving your phone at your desk. — MB
Ruth Kaplan
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