You need to take three vacations a year to live longer, says study

This is the best new you might have read today. According to a new study you need to take at least three vacations a year between your work schedules. As it seems to be the key especially for men to lead a healthy life. People with shorter vacations worked more and slept lesser than those who took longer vacations, which took a toll on their health and affected their lifespan.


Professor Timo Strandberg said, “Don’t think that having an otherwise healthy lifestyle will compensate for working too hard and not taking holidays. Vacations can be a good way to relieve stress.”


The professor concluded by saying, “Men in the control group received usual healthcare and were not seen by the investigators. Shorter vacations were associated with excess deaths in the intervention group. Vacation time had no impact on risk of death in the control group. However, our results do not indicate that health education is harmful. Rather, they suggest that stress reduction is an essential part of programmes aimed at reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases.”