Stress is now known as a contributing factor to many major illnesses; including heart diseases, strokes and also, diabetes. Specifically, work related stress is associated to many metabolic syndromes including high cholesterol and triglycerides and high blood pressure. For diabetes prevention, it is therefore important that you manage your stress levels effectively.

Diabetes is fast becoming a common disease. There are now 20.8 million children and adults in the United States, or 7% of the population, with diabetes. About two thirds of the 20.8 million people have been diagnosed. The remaining one third are still unaware that they have the disease.

A study was recently done that involved over 10,000 men and women in the age group 35-55 years old. The study revealed that the more work related stress that a person had, the more likely he will be diagnosed with metabolic problems, including diabetes. In fact, people who work with chronic stress levels were found to have twice as likely to develop diabetes. Thus, researchers concluded that stress does increase the risk of developing a metabolic problem and/or diabetes.

If you are still working, you are likely to experience work related stress. Diabetes prevention is necessary; so you have to learning how to cope with stress at work. These are some important questions to ask yourself: How do you manage stress at work? Do you carry work home with you? How to you relieve your work related stress levels?

Diabetes prevention can start with implementing these tips for your work:

• Take regular breaks. Move around every half an hour or so.
• Do relaxation and stretching exercises at your desk.
• Replace your caffeinated coffee and soda with water.
• Leave the work at work if you can.
• If you have leave entitlement, then take them.
• Avoid social settings where talk revolves around work.
• Use deep breathing and relaxation techniques to relieve stress.

Maintaining a positive attitude can help reduce your reaction to stress and thus aid in diabetes prevention. If your job is causing most of your stress, then it is time to do something about it. You can try talking to your superior and think of ways to make it less stressful. It is also far better to take on a less stressful position than to be stressed and unhealthy. For diabetes prevention, there are definitely ways that you can go about improving the stressful situation at work.