Health related current events

In these post we are showing some health related current events  due to hard work and which will further get serious issue in your life. Read the article to know about the problems which can occur due to hard work. Make sure your job status is not like this to have problems with your health.

Hard work can stunt the brain

As with individuals, so with whole nations. One of the main problem which is health related current events facing by peoples. Take Japan, the country of the world's worst workaholics. Even little Japanese kids work their butts off. At high school they do 16-hour days a full day of mind-numbing rote learning at school, then a session at the crammer's, then a block of swot at home before they stumble bleary-eyed into bed at midnight. At university they have more years of frantic fact-stuffing -not figuring out or creating for themselves, just swallowing and regurgitating what is fed to them. For what? To join the workforce and be judged, not by creativity or achievement, but by how many hours of unpaid overtime - necessary or not they put in. No time to go home, lads; let's have an hour at a karaoke bar and then spend the night in a rented 'room'like an oversized pigeonhole. Crazy.

Now, the Japanese are certainly the world's top improvers of other people's inventions, the masters of modifying, miniaturising and gadgetising. In this respect they are brilliant engineers. But they cannot create from scratch. They lack the innovative flair of the British, the 'can-do' of the Americans. Thanks to all that hard work, their brains are too one-sided, as their own scientists admit. They are obsessed with bizarre gadgets: virtual pets, virtual aliens, virtual dancing partners, and with electronic absurdities like the refrigerator with a TV set in its door and the computerised toilet. Their patent count is rising, it's true. But it would be hard to name anything they had actually invented in principle, other than sushi.

 

So, in the most important areas of technology, Japan is being left behind. Microsoft Windows sets the operating standards which the world's PCs, Japanese included, must follow. Intel of America dominates the billion-dollar microchip market. The biggest computer manufacturers, like IBM, Compaq and Dell, are also American. Even sillier, as the Daily Telegraph noted in 1997, "British youths who wasted their spotty years in darkened bedrooms playing with their Sinclair ZX computers are now running companies selling software to the Japanese, whose own highly-educated workforce lacks the imagination to write it."

It is beginning to look ominous for the Japanese. Hard work regardless, their economy is beginning to crumble. Some of their (and the world's) biggest banks, massively over-exposed to expansionist industry, are technically insolvent. Employment for life is a thing of the past, unemployment a reality of the present. As the world slides into the 21st Century, creating jobs which no-one so far has even thought of, this nation of obsessive toilers is going to be left behind -at management level by people with more flair and inventiveness, at shop floor level by people (like the Chinese and Malaysians) who will work not harder, but for less.

Hard work can fog the vision

 

It is another one of the health related current events faced by peoples. Travel south from a big country to a small one, and the story is the same. If I wake very early in my retirement home here in Auckland, I can hear people - builders? - going off to work at 5 a.m. Farmers start even earlier, at 4.30.

In this nation of the self-employed, however, no-one works harder than the so-called contractor. Lawnmowing roundsmen whizz round the suburbs, three mowers in the back of their 1980s "utes", busting to up their daily acreage. Bread delivery men buy their own trucks to work a 77-hour, seven-day week. Bin men run, hurling full rubbish sacks one-handed as they go. Milk roundsmen run too, often for 363 of the year's 365 days. The self-employed van drivers who deliver mail and packages around stores and offices run hardest of all - in and out of buildings, up and down stairs, as though their lives depended on it. Their livelihoods certainly do.

 

I don't think there's a harder working people anywhere in the western world than in New Zealand. They are famed for it in Britain, where society ladies hire touring New Zealand girls as nurses and nannies, "all-found" plus a pittance for an 80-hour week. They are known for it too in America, where kids' summer camps hire Kiwi youngsters as so-called counsellors, working all day, on call all night, for pocket money. They are notorious for it in Australia, where Kiwi expats do much of the hard yakka at both the top and the bottom ends of the social ladder. (Aussies are, if anything, a bit too laid-back.)

And has all this hard work made New Zealand a tiny Asian tiger, bounding up the international prosperity league tables? Not exactly. Back in the 1950s it was rated the third most affluent country on earth. Now it ranks twenty sixth. Hard work has blinded Kiwis to the central fact: theirs is at heart a peasant (or colonial) economy. Like the banana republics, New Zealand relies heavily on selling basic food and forestry products to more sophisticated countries. And peasant economies, whatever they sell - copper or coffee, tea or timber, rice or rubber - never grow rich. So the Kiwi economy is a Titanic, sliding slowly, almost imperceptibly, into the Third World.

Hard work can damage your health

 

Further - and finally - Ronald Reagan was wrong. Hard work has killed a great many people. Nobody else took much notice while British farm workers in the 19th and early 20th centuries were dying in their fifties, worn out like the animals they tended. Nor when 16-18 hour days killed miners and factory workers on both sides of the Atlantic. Not usually from exhaustion alone, but more often from the horrendous workplace accidents that exhaustion caused. At one stage in the mid-nineteenth century, the accident and mortality rate among labour on the American railroads was a chilling 70 per cent. In Russia and China, the expression 'labour camp'in the 20th Century assumed the connotation of 'death camp', a place where millions of dissenters were brutally worked to death. Today it is white-collar workers who are working themselves to death, under the twin pressures of competition, both external and internal; and the threat of redundancy, as companies retrench. But not much else has changed.

•         People working more than 48 hours a week are twice as likely to die from coronary heart disease than those who do less than 40 hours, according to an American study.

•         Competitive, aggressive behaviour, according to an E.U. paper, appears to double the risk of ischaemic heart disease, especially in the under-60s. In many recorded instances, sudden stress has triggered an immediate, fatal, cardiac arrest.

•         Air traffic controllers, under the double pressures of stress and irregular hours, are four times more likely than others to have dangerously high blood pressure, itself a cardiac risk factor.

•         Although some of these facts have been known for more than 40 years, people are working harder than ever. Far from making life easier, technologies such as the mobile phone and household e-mail mean that some executives and salesmen are never off the job.

Instead of machines improving our leisure time, Man is in desperate economic competition against his own technology. What's more, our leisure pursuits compound the felony. Cycling, for instance, is a pleasantly healthy form of locomotion. It is as good as walking, with one exception: it gets you there too soon. But "exercycling"? Treadmilling? Pedalling like mad to go nowhere? Consciously, conscientiously working hard at home so you can work harder than ever at work? Is this sensible, by any standards? health related current events are increasing day by day. Take care of yourself by doing some yoga practices.