welcome, It's Friday and I'm tired. 

 Dr. Matthew Sleeth says kicking back for one day a week can make people healthier. 

Busy looking over the body and fatigue.  I had found a very interesting article about fatigue.

And I'll share it with you

The importance of a 'stop day'

Story highlights

• Our 24/7 lifestyle is having health consequences, doctor says
• A "stop day" is a day you really cease from your labors
• Doctor: The idea of having one day a week to stop is very reassuring

 Dr. Matthew Sleeth is a former emergency room physician. He's also the author of "24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life." 

 

For almost 2,000 years, Western culture stopped -- primarily on Sunday -- for about 24 hours. Even when I was a child, you couldn't buy gasoline, you couldn't buy milk. The drugstores weren't open. The only thing that was open was a hospital. Even in dairy farming country, we would milk cows, but we wouldn't bring in hay.

And so society just had a day where they put it in park. (That) was Sunday... until the last 30 years or so.

We go 24/7 now, and I think it's having health consequences. I think more and more, there's a consensus that it leads to depression and anxiety.

It's interesting, when a doctor sits down and does a primary intake with a new patient, they ask about smoking, exercise and diet, but they don't ask how much you're working. They don't get any sense of if you're working seven days a week, or if you have time set aside -- like people have always had -- for rest.

I think the lack of rest is reflected in our saying, "We don't have enough time." I think it's pretty much generally felt that we don't have enough time to really get to the things we want to do in life.

 

A "stop day" is a day you really cease from your labors. This really comes in Western cultures from the Ten Commandments. The fourth commandment tells us to remember the Sabbath. The word "Sabbath" simply means "to cease" -- to cease from your labors.

Now, the definition of labor has changed over the centuries and the millennia. For some people, resting from their labors might mean resting from their sedentary job that they have, putting on tennis shoes and going for a run. For those who work physically, that would mean coming to rest.

In the book "24/6," I don't try to define what rest is for a person, but I ask you to figure out what work is for you, and don't do it one day out of the week.

 

I find that there's a growing epidemic, really, of depression. We're the most depressed country in the world.

The World Health Organization says somewhere between one in nine and one in 10 Americans are being treated for depression. We tend to work more hours than any other country in the world; Japan is second closest.

Thank you for your time reading this post. Tomorrow I'll talk more about it.

You can also read from source, of today's post.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/11/health/sleeth-take-day-off/index.html