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Submitted by PatientsEngage on 4 February 2015

Study published in The Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports shows that even gentle lunchtime strolls can perceptibly - and immediately - buoy and improve people's moods and ability to handle stress at work.

To assess people's moods, the volunteers set up a specialized app that included a list of questions about their emotions - stress, tension, enthusiasm, workload, motivation, physical fatigue.  

Walkers said they felt more enthusiastic, less tense, more relaxed on the afternoons after a stroll.

As a pleasant, additional outcome, all of the volunteers showed gains in their aerobic fitness and other measures of health after 10 weeks of walking.

Tellingly, many said that the primary impediment to their walking had been "they were expected by management to work through lunch". 

Time for companies and managers to change their mindset.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/stressed-at-work-try-a-lunchtime-walk/?_r=0

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